AP Vocabulary
***Homework assignments are due on the day of the test!
For each term complete the following:
- Define each term
- Give an example of each term
- Place the term in a broader theoretical context (answer the question: “so what?”)
- If a court case, be able to discuss the specifics of the case, the reasons why the decision was made, and its political significance or implications (again, “so what?”).
- If a political figure, discuss who that person is and how he/she has contributed to U.S. government and politics.
#1 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 9/2
- Aristotle
- authority
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic theory
- citizen participation
- city-state
- community control
- democracy
- direct or participatory
- elite (political)
- elitist theory
- Hamilton
- legitimacy
- majoritarian politics
- Marxist theory
- Mills
- New England town
- pluralist theory
- polis
- political power
- power
- representative democracy
- Schumpeter
- Weber
#2A Vocabulary Terms Test date: 9/9
- Articles of Confederation
- Bill of Rights
- Charles A. Beard
- coalition
- concurrent powers
- Constitution
- Constitutional Convention
- Declaration of Independence
- Enumerated powers
- Faction
- Federalism
- Federalist papers
- Great Compromise
- Patrick Henry
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Locke
- James Madison
- Massachusetts Constitution
- natural rights
- New Jersey Plan
- Pennsylvania Constitution
- reserved powers
- separation of powers
- Shays’s Rebellion
- unalienable
- Virginia Plan
#2B Vocabulary Terms Test date: 9/16
- Amendment (constitutional)
- Antifederalists
- bill of attainder
- Bill of Rights
- checks and balances
- coalition
- confederation
- Constitutional Convention
- ex post facto law
- faction
- Federalist papers
- Federalists
- judicial review
- line-item veto
- Madisonian view of human nature
- republic
- inalienable rights
- writ of habeas corpus
#3 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 9/23
- AFDC
- block grants
- categorical grants
- conditions of aid
- confederation or confederal system
- devolution
- dual federalism
- Daniel J. Elazar
- federal system
- federal republic
- grants-in-aid
- initiative
- intergovernmental lobby
- interstate commerce
- intrastate commerce
- land grant colleges
- James Madison
- John Marshall
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- mandates
- Medicaid
- national interests
- necessary-and-proper clause
- nullification
- police powers
- recall
- referendum
- revenue sharing
- William H. Riker
- second-order devolution
- sovereignty
- states’ rights
- Tenth Amendment
- third-order devolution
- unitary system
-
waiver
#4 Vocabulary Terms Test date:9/30
- Almond and Verba
- Americanism
- blue states
- civic competence
- civic duty
- class consciousness
- Congregational
- Erik Erikson
- equal opportunity
- Individualism
- liberty
- Gunnar Myrdal
- opposition party
- orthodox (social)
- political culture
- political ideology
- political tolerance
- progressive (social)
- red states
- un-American
- Max Weber
- work ethic
#5 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 10/7
- actual malice
- Hugo Black
- “clear and present danger” test
- Community Control Act
- conscientious objector
- creationism
- establishment clause
- exclusionary rule
- FISA
- free exercise clause
- freedom of expression
- freedom of religion
- Giltow v. New York
- good-faith exception
- incorporation
- Internal Security Act
- Thomas Jefferson
- least means
- libel
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Miranda
- preferred position
- prior restraint
- probable cause
- public figures
- Red scare
- released time
- search warrant
- Sedition Act
- Smith Act
- symbolic speech
- wall-of-separation principles
#6 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 10/14
- affirmative action
- aliens
- Bakke
- Brown v. Board of Education
- buffer zone
- compensatory action
- civil rights
- de facto segregation
- de jure segregation
- equality of opportunity
- equality of results
- freedom of choice
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Hyde Amendment
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- NAACP
- nonviolent civil disobedience
- Norma McCorvey
- NOW
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- preferential treatment
- reasonableness
- Reconstruction
- Reed v. Reed
- reverse discrimination
- Roe v. Wade
- Rostker v. Goldberg
- separate-but-equal doctrine
- Southern Manifesto
- strict scrutiny
- suspect classification
#7 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 10/20
- crosscutting cleavages
- exit polling
- gender gap
- Barry Goldwater
- ideological constraint
- V.O. Key
- norm
- party identification
- political elites
- political ideology
- political socialization
- poll
- random sample
- red diaper babies
- sampling error
#8 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 11/4
- activist
- Australian ballot
- campaigners
- communalists
- complete activists
- Democrats
- Fifteenth Amendment
- grandfather clauses
- inactives
- literacy tests
- motor-voter law
- Nineteenth Amendment
- parochial participants
- poll tax
- registered voters
- Twenty-sixth Amendment
- voter apathy
- voting-age population
- voting-eligible population
- Voting Rights Act of 1970
- voting specialists
- white primaries
#9 Vocabulary Terms Test dates: 11/11
- Anti-Masonic party
- caucus
- congressional campaign committee
- critical (or realigning) period
- Democratic-Republicans
- factional parties
- factions
- Federalists
- Hatch Act
- ideological parties
- initiative
- machine
- Mugwumps
- national (party) chair
- national committee
- national convention
- nonpartisan election
- office bloc ballot
- organizational party
- party column ballot
- personal following
- plurality system
- political machine
- political party
- proportional representation
- referendum
- Republican
- second-party system
- solidary groups
- solidary incentives
- split ticket voting
- sponsored parties
- stalwarts
- superdelegates
- ii. Tammany Hall
- two-party system
- winner-take-all
#10 Vocabulary Terms Test Date: 11/18
- blanket primary
- blue states
- caucus (electoral)
- closed primary
- Democrats
- direct mail
- 527 organizations
- general election
- gerrymandering
- incumbent
- Independent
- open primary
- malapportionment
- political action committee (PAC)
- position issue
- presidential primary
- primary election
- prospective voting
- red states
- Republican
- retrospective voting
- runoff primary
- soft money
- sophomore surge
- spots
- talking heads
- valence issue
-
visual
#11 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 12/2
- “beltway bandits”
- client politics
- cue (political)
- direct mail
- “Dirty Dozen”
- Federal Regulation or Lobbying Act of1946
- Federalist 10
- Section 501(c)(3) organizations
- Section 501 (c)(4) organizations
- grassroots support
- ideological interest groups
- incentive (political)
- insider strategy
- institutional interests
- interest groups
- issue public
- lobbyist
- material benefit incentives
- membership interests
- outsider strategy
- PACs
- PIRGs
- public-interest lobby
- purposive incentive
#12 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 12/9
- adversarial press
- Associated Press
- attack journalism
- blog
- canned news
- community needs
- equal time rule
- fairness doctrine
- FCC
- feature stories
- Freedom of Information Act
- Gatekeeper
- insider stories
- loaded language
- market (television)
- Official Secrets Act
- off the record
- on background
- on deep background
- on the record
- reckless disregard
- routine stories
- Scorekeeper
- selective attention
- sound bite
- Telecommunication Act of 1996
- trial balloon
- visuals
- White House Press Corps
- “yellow journalism”
#13A Vocabulary Terms Test date: 12/16
- attitudinal view
- bicameral legislature
- closed rule
- cloture rule
- Committee on Committees
- concurrent resolution
- congressional caucus
- conservative coalition
- discharge petition
- filibuster
- House Rules Committee
- joint resolution
- marginal districts
- markup
- Millionaire’s Club
- multiple referral
- organizational view
- Parliament
- party caucus
- party polarization
- party vote
- party whip
- representational view
- restrictive rule
- riders
- safe districts
- seniority
- sequential referral
- simple resolution
- Steering Committee
#13B Vocabulary Terms Test date: 1/6
- Christmas tree bill
- conference committees
- division vote
- double tracking
- franking privilege
- joint committee
- majority leader
- minority leader
- open rule
- pork barrel legislation
- private bill
- public bill
- quorum call
- roll call vote
- select committees
- standing committees
- teller vote
- voice vote
#14 Vocabulary Terms Test date 1/13
- ad hoc structure
- Article II
- bully pulpit
- cabinet
- circular structure
- delegate
- direct democracy
- divided government
- electoral college
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive privilege
- gridlock
- honeymoon
- impeachment
- impoundment of funds
- “in-and-outers”
- independent agencies
- lame duck
- legislative veto
- line-item veto
- Office of Management and Budget
- perks
- pocket veto
- prime minister
- pyramid structure
- representative democracy
- signing statement
- Tribune of the People
- trustee
- Twenty-fifth Amendment
- unified government
- veto message
- White House Office
#15 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 1/20
- annual authorizations
- appropriation
- authorization legislation
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic imperialism
- Chadha
- Civil Service Reform Act
- committee clearance
- competitive service
- Department of Homeland Security
- discretionary authority
- excepted service
- government by proxy
- iron triangle
- issue networks
- laissez-faire
- legislative veto
- name-request job
- National Performance Review
- patronage
- Pendleton Act
- red tape
- schedule C
- Senior Executive Service
- trust funds
- Whistle Blower Protection Act
#16 Vocabulary Terms Test date 1/27
- activist approach
- amicus curiae
- appellate jurisdiction
- bloc voting
- civil law
- class action suit
- concurring opinion
- constitutional court
- criminal law
- diversity case
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- fee shifting
- Friday conference
- Gang of Fourteen
- In forma pauperis
- judicial restraint
- judicial review
- litmus test
- per curiam opinion
- plaintiff
- political question
- remedy
- senatorial courtesy
- solicitor general
- sovereign immunity
- standing
- stare decisis
- writ of certiorari
#17 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 2/3
- agenda setting
- benefit
- boycott
- client politics
- closed shop
- cost
- cost argument
- Do Not Call Law
- entrepreneurial politics
- Gerald Ford
- the Grange
- interest-group politics
- logrolling
- majoritarian politics
- policy entrepreneurs
- political agenda
- pork-barrel projects
- process regulation
- professionalization of reform
- relative deprivation
- Theodore Roosevelt
- secondary boycott
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Superfund
#18 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 2/10
- budget
- budget resolution
- budget surplus
- Congressional Budget Act
- Council of Economic Advisers
- deficit
- discretionary spending
- economic planning
- entitlements
- Federal Reserve System
- fiscal policy
- fiscal year (FY)
- globalization
- gross domestic product
- Keynesianism
- loopholes
- monetarism
- monetary policy
- national debt
- other-regarding voter theory
- planning
- price and wage control
- Reaganomics
- self-regarding voter theory
- sequester
- sociotropic voting
- supply-side theory
- Treasury Department
#19 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 2/17
- AFDC
- almshouses
- assistance program
- charitable choice
- client politics
- earned income tax credit
- End Poverty in California plan
- food stamps
- income strategy
- indexing
- insurance program
- majoritarian politics
- means test
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
- mother’s pension
- Charles Murray
- Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
- service strategy
- Share Our Wealth plan
- Social Security Act
- SSI
- TANF
- Townsend plan
- UI
#20A Vocabulary Terms Test date: 2/24
- antiappeasement
- Berlin blockade
- Chadha
- CIA
- client foreign policy
- cold war
- commander in chief
- containment
- cost overruns
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Cuban missile crisis
- disengagement view
- domino theory
- executive agreements
- gold plating
- imperial presidency
- interest-group foreign policy
- iron curtain
- isolationism
- Korematsu v. United States
- legislative veto
- majoritarian foreign policy
- military-industrial complex
- multinational corporation
- Munich
- NSC
- Pearl Harbor
- Polarization
- Rally ‘Round the Flag effect
- State Department
- Third World
- treaties
- War Powers Act
- WMD
- worldview
#20B Vocabulary Terms Test date: 3/24
- chain of command
- defense reorganization plan
- Desert Storm
- House Armed Services Committee
- interservice rivalry
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Joint Staff
- military-industrial complex
- National Security Act
- peace dividend
- readiness
- “sole sourcing”
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
#21 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 3/9
- acid rain
- bank (or pollution allowance)
- bubble standard
- catalytic converter
- Clean Air Act of 1970
- Clean Air Act of 1990
- clear-cutting
- client politics
- command-and-control strategy
- DDT
- Earth Day
- entrepreneurial politics
- environmental impact statement (EIS)
- Environmental Protection Agency
- interest-group politics
- Kyoto Protocol
- majoritarian politics
- National Environmental Policy Act
- offset
- scrubber
- sulfur dioxide
- Superfund
- Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970
#1, #2A, #2B Vocabulary Terms Test date: 3/16
- Aristotle
- authority
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic theory
- citizen participation
- city-state
- community control
- democracy
- direct or participatory democracy
- elite (political)
- elitist theory
- Hamilton
- legitimacy
- majoritarian politics
- Marxist theory
- Mills
- New England town meeting
- pluralist theory
- polis
- political power
- power
- representative democracy
- Schumpeter
- Weber
- Massachusetts Constitution
- James Madison
- Articles of Confederation
- Bill of Rights
- Charles A. Beard
- coalition
- concurrent powers
- Constitution
- Constitutional Convention
- Declaration of Independence
- Enumerated powers
- Faction
- Federalism
- Federalist papers
- Great Compromise
- Patrick Henry
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Locke
- natural rights
- New Jersey Plan
- Pennsylvania Constitution
- reserved powers
- separation of powers
- Shays’s Rebellion
- Unalienable
- Virginia Plan
- Amendment (constitutional)
- Antifederalists
- bill of attainder
- Bill of Rights
- checks and balances
- coalition
- confederation
- Constitutional
- Convention
- ex post facto law
- faction
- Federalist papers
- Federalists
- judicial review
- line-item veto
- Madisonian view of human nature
- republic
- inalienable rights
- writ of habeas corpus
#3, #4, #5 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 3/23
- AFDC
- block grants
- categorical grants
- conditions of aid
- confederation or confederal system
- devolution
- dual federalism
- Daniel J. Elazar
- federal system
- federal republic
- grants-in-aid
- initiative
- intergovernmental lobby
- interstate commerce
- intrastate commerce
- land grant colleges
- James Madison
- John Marshall
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- mandates
- Medicaid
- national interests
- necessary-and-proper clause
- nullification
- police powers
- recall
- referendum
- revenue sharing
- William H. Riker
- second-order devolution
- sovereignty
- states’ rights
- Tenth Amendment
- third-order devolution
- unitary system
- waiver
- Almond and Verba
- Americanism
- blue states
- civic competence
- civic duty
- class consciousness
- Congregational
- Erik Erikson
- equal opportunity
- Individualism
- liberty
- Gunnar Myrdal
- opposition party
- orthodox (social)
- political culture
- political ideology
- political tolerance
- progressive (social)
- red states
- un-American
- Max Weber
- work ethic
- actual malice
- Hugo Black
- “clear and present danger” test
- Community Control Act
- conscientious objector
- creationism
- establishment clause
- exclusionary rule
- FISA
- free exercise clause
- freedom of expression
- freedom of religion
- Giltow v. New York
- good-faith exception
- incorporation
- Internal Security Act
- Thomas Jefferson
- least means
- libel
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Miranda
- preferred position
- prior restraint
- probable cause
- public figures
- Red scare
- released time
- search warrant
- Sedition Act
- Smith Act
- symbolic speech
- wall-of-separation principles
#6, #7, #8 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 3/30
- affirmative action
- aliens
- Bakke
- Brown v. Board of Education
- buffer zone
- civil rights
- compensatory action
- de facto segregation
- de jure segregation
- equality of opportunity
- equality of results
- freedom of choice
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Hyde Amendment
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- NAACP
- nonviolent civil disobedience
- Norma McCorvey
- NOW
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- preferential treatment
- reasonableness
- Reconstruction
- Reed v. Reed
- reverse discrimination
- Roe v. Wade
- Rostker v. Goldberg
- separate-but-equal doctrine
- Southern Manifesto
- strict scrutiny
- suspect classification
- crosscutting cleavages
- exit polling
- gender gap
- Barry Goldwater
- ideological constraint
- V.O. Key
- norm
- party identification
- political elites
- political ideology
- political socialization
- poll
- random sample
- red diaper babies
- sampling error
- complete activists
- activist
- Australian ballot
- campaigners
- communalists
- Democrats
- Fifteenth Amendment
- grandfather clauses
- inactives
- motor-voter law
- Nineteenth Amendment
- parochial participants
- poll tax
- voter apathy
- voting-age population
- Twenty-sixth Amendment
- voting specialists
- white primaries
- Voting Rights Act of 1970
- literacy tests
- registered voters
- voting-eligible population
#9, #10, #11 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 4/13
- Anti-Masonic party
- caucus
- congressional campaign committee
- critical (or realigning) period
- Democratic-Republicans
- factional parties
- factions
- Federalists
- Hatch Act
- ideological parties
- initiative
- machine
- Mugwumps
- national (party) chair
- national committee
- national convention
- nonpartisan election
- office bloc ballot
- organizational party
- party column ballot
- personal following
- plurality system
- political machine
- political party
- proportional representation
- referendum
- Republican
- second-party system
- solidary groups
- solidary incentives
- split ticket voting
- sponsored parties
- stalwarts
- superdelegates
- ii. Tammany Hall
- two-party system
- winner-take-all
- blanket primary
- blue states
- caucus (electoral)
- closed primary
- Democrats
- direct mail
- 527 organizations
- general election
- gerrymandering
- incumbent
- Independent
- open primary
- malapportionment
- political action committee (PAC)
- position issue
- presidential primary
- primary election
- prospective voting
- red states
- Republican
- retrospective voting
- runoff primary
- soft money
- sophomore surge
- spots
- talking heads
- valence issue
- visual
- “beltway bandits”
- client politics
- cue (political)
- direct mail
- “Dirty Dozen”
- Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of1946
- Federalist 10
- Section 501(c)(3) organizations
- Section 501 (c)(4) organizations
- grassroots support
- ideological interest groups
- incentive (political)
- insider strategy
- institutional interests
- interest groups
- issue public
- lobbyist
- material benefit incentives
- membership interests
- outsider strategy
- PACs
- PIRGs
- public-interest lobby
- purposive incentive
#12, #13A, #13B Vocabulary Terms Test date: 4/20
- adversarial press
- Associated Press
- attack journalism
- blog
- canned news
- community needs
- equal time rule
- fairness doctrine
- FCC
- feature stories
- Freedom of Information Act
- Gatekeeper
- insider stories
- loaded language
- market (television)
- Official Secrets Act
- off the record
- on background
- on deep background
- on the record
- reckless disregard
- trial balloon
- routine stories
- Scorekeeper
- selective attention
- sound bite
- Telecommunication Act of 1996
- visuals
- White House Press Corps
- “yellow journalism”
- marginal districts
- markup
- attitudinal view
- bicameral legislature
- closed rule
- cloture rule
- Committee on Committees
- concurrent resolution
- congressional caucus
- conservative coalition
- discharge petition
- filibuster
- House Rules Committee
- joint resolution
- Millionaire’s Club
- multiple referral
- organizational view
- Parliament
- party caucus
- party polarization
- party vote
- party whip
- representational view
- restrictive rule
- riders
- safe districts
- seniority
- sequential referral
- simple resolution
- Steering Committee
- Christmas tree bill
- conference committees
- division vote
- double tracking
- franking privilege
- joint committee
- majority leader
- minority leader
- open rule
- pork barrel legislation
- private bill
- public bill
- quorum call
- roll call vote
- select committees
- standing committees
- teller vote
-
voice vote
#14, #15, #16 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 4/27
- ad hoc structure
- Article II
- bully pulpit
- cabinet
- circular structure
- delegate
- direct democracy
- divided government
- electoral college
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive privilege
- gridlock
- honeymoon
- impeachment
- impoundment of funds
- “in-and-outers”
- independent agencies
- lame duck
- legislative veto
- line-item veto
- Office of Management and Budget
- perks
- pocket veto
- prime minister
- pyramid structure
- representative democracy
- signing statement
- Tribune of the People
- trustee
- Twenty-fifth Amendment
- unified government
- veto message
- White House Office
- annual authorizations
- appropriation
- Chadh
- authorization legislation
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic imperialism
- Civil Service Reform Act
- committee clearance
- competitive service
- Department of Homeland Security
- discretionary authority
- excepted service
- government by proxy
- iron triangle
- issue networks
- laissez-faire
- legislative veto
- name-request job
- National Performance Review
- patronage
- Pendleton Act
- red tape
- schedule C
- Senior Executive Service
- trust funds
- Whistle Blower Protection Act
- activist approach
- amicus curiae
- appellate jurisdiction
- bloc voting
- civil law
- class action suit
- concurring opinion
- constitutional court
- criminal law
- diversity case
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- fee shifting
- Friday conference
- Gang of Fourteen
- In forma pauperis
- judicial restraint
- judicial review
- litmus test
- per curiam opinion
- plaintiff
- political question
- remedy
- senatorial courtesy
- solicitor general
- sovereign immunity
- standing
- stare decisis
- writ of certiorari
#17, #18, #19 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 5/4
- benefit
- boycott
- client politics
- closed shop
- cost
- cost argument
- Do Not Call Law
- entrepreneurial politics
- Gerald Ford
- the Grange
- interest-group politics
- logrolling
- majoritarian politics
- policy entrepreneurs
- political agenda
- pork-barrel projects
- process regulation
- professionalization of reform
- relative deprivation
- Theodore Roosevelt
- secondary boycott
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Superfund
- budget resolution
- budget surplus
- Congressional Budget Act
- Council of Economic Advisers
- deficit
- discretionary spending
- economic planning
- entitlements
- Federal Reserve System
- fiscal policy
- fiscal year (FY)
- globalization
- gross domestic product
- Keynesianism
- loopholes
- monetarism
- monetary policy
- national debt
- other-regarding voter theory
- planning
- price and wage control
- Reaganomics
- self-regarding voter theory
- sequester
- sociotropic voting
- supply-side theory
- Treasury Department
- agenda setting
- budget
- AFDC
- almshouses
- assistance program
- charitable choice
- client politics
- earned income tax credit
- End Poverty in California plan
- food stamps
- income strategy
- indexing
- insurance program
- majoritarian politics
- means test
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act
- mother’s pension
- Charles Murray
- Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
- service strategy
- Share Our Wealth plan
- Social Security Act
- SSI
- TANF
- Townsend plan
- UI
#20A, #20B, #21 Vocabulary Terms Test date: 5/11
- antiappeasement
- Berlin blockade
- Chadha
- CIA
- client foreign policy
- cold war
- commander in chief
- containment
- cost overruns
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Cuban missile crisis
- disengagement view
- domino theory
- executive agreements
- gold plating
- imperial presidency
- interest-group foreign policy
- iron curtain
- isolationism
- Korematsu v. United States
- legislative veto
- majoritarian foreign policy
- military-industrial complex
- multinational corporation
- Munich
- NSC
- Pearl Harbor
- polarization
- Rally ‘Round the Flag effect
- State Department
- Third World
- treaties
- War Powers Act
- WMD
- Worldview
- military-industrial complex
- defense reorganization plan
- Desert Storm
- House Armed Services Committee
- interservice rivalry
- Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Joint Staff
- National Security Act
- peace dividend
- readiness
- “sole sourcing”
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
- clear-cutting
- environmental impact statement (EIS)
- chain of command
- acid rain
- bank (or pollution allowance)
- bubble standard
- catalytic converter
- Clean Air Act of 1970
- Clean Air Act of 1990
- client politics
- command-and-control strategy
- DDT
- Earth Day
- entrepreneurial politics
- Environmental Protection Agency
- interest-group politics
- Kyoto Protocol
- majoritarian politics
- National Environmental Policy Act
- offset
- scrubber
- sulfur dioxide
- Superfund
- Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970