American Government and Politics Today, Brief Edition, 2014-2015

316 PART FouR • PolicymAking smaller estates. Sales taxes are regressive, because the wealthy spend a relatively smaller por- ti ...

chAPTER ThiRTEEn • DomEsTic AnD Economic Policy 317 Collectively, programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, unemploy ...

318 PART FouR • PolicymAking chaptersummary 1 Domestic policy consists of laws, government planning, and government actions that ...

chAPTER ThiRTEEn • DomEsTic AnD Economic Policy 319 testyourself LO1 Describe the five steps of the policymaking process, using ...

320 U.S. secretary of State John Kerry addresses a Friends of Syria meeting in the Arab nation of Qatar in 2013 after President ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 321 Foreign Policy A nation’s external goals and the techniques and strategies used to achieve ...

322 PART FOuR • POliCymAking Moral Idealism A philosophy that views nations as normally willing to cooperate and to agree on mor ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 323 Terrorism A systematic attempt to inspire fear to gain political ends, typically involving ...

324 PART FOuR • POliCymAking organization has employed terrorism with the goal of creating an independent Basque state in Spain’ ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 325 A new kind of War. In September 2002, President Bush enunciated what became known as the “ ...

326 PART FOuR • POliCymAking iraqi Endgame. In January 2007, President Bush announced a major increase, or “surge,” in U.S. troo ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 327 Cold War The ideological, political, and economic confrontation between the United States ...

328 PART FOuR • POliCymAking Normal Trade Relations (NTR) Status A status granted through an international treaty by which each ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 329 While officially Communist, China today permits a striking degree of free enterprise. Chin ...

330 PART FOuR • POliCymAking China’s Explosive Economic growth. The growth of the Chinese economy during the last thirty-five ye ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 331 relations were already quite heated. In 2013, the United States accused the Chinese mili- ...

332 PART FOuR • POliCymAking humanitarian aid and construction materials. Israeli com- mandos seized the ships, resulting in the ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 333 Would the euro periphery countries eventually be forced to leave the euro so that they cou ...

334 PART FOuR • POliCymAking Treaties and Executive Agreements. Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution also gives the presid ...

CHAPTER FOuRTEEn • FOREign POliCy 335 Intelligence Community The government agencies that gather information about the capabilit ...