Index 395
Independents
defined, 154
midterm elections of 2010 and,
161
rise of, 166–167, 174
India
federal system of government
in, 47
nuclear weapons and, 327, 336
Indiana ballot, 186
Indirect primary, 181
Indirect techniques of interest
groups, 151, 152–153
Individual mandate, 62, 301
Inflation
defined, 308
measuring, 308
monetary policy and, 313
Information disclosure, 261
Information government knows
about private citizens, 268
Inherent powers, 235
of national government, 50
Initiatives, defined, 4
In re Oliver, 68
In re Quinlan, 83
Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, 147
Institutions, 2
Instructed delegate, 198
Intelligence community
defined, 335
foreign policymaking and,
335–336
war on terrorism and, 336
Intelligent design, 72
Interest groups, 143–154
campaign assistance by, 152
campaign financing and,
176 –18 0
compared to political parties,
14 4
constituents as lobbyists, 153
defined, 143
direct techniques, 151–152
economic, 146–149
527 organizations, 178
free-rider problem, 145
indirect techniques, 151,
152–153
iron triangles, 266
issue advocacy advertising,
17 7attempts at reform, 304–305
change in U.S. ethnic
d istr ibution, 10 4 –105
civil rights of, 104–105
constitutional rights of
noncitizens, 105
domestic policy, 303–305
due process and deportees,
87–88
ex post facto laws and
deportees, 88
freedom of speech and
deportees, 88
Hispanic vs. Latino, 104
limiting state government
authority over, 62
mixed families, 304
national security and civil
liberties of, 87–88
path to citizenship for
unauthorized, 106
political socialization and
media, 133
rates of, 303
Republican Party and Hispanic
voters, 124–125
state immigration laws, 304
unauthorized immigration
issue, 303–304
Imminent lawless action test, 76
Impeachment, 237–238
Implied power, 54
Income tax
congressional power to impose,
200
imposed during Civil War, 56
as progressive tax, 315
rates of, 314, 315
rich paying more taxes, 316
An Inconvenient Truth (f ilm),
307
Incorporation theory, 68–69
Independent executive agencies,
251–252
Independent expenditures,
17 7–17 8
Independent regulatory agencies,
253–256
agency capture, 255–256
deregulation and reregulation,
256
purpose and nature of,
254–255incumbency and power of, 205,
206
leadership in, 212–214
lobbying rules, 153–154
majority leader of, 213
members of
age of, 202, 204
election of, 197
income and wealth of, 202,
204
minorities, 204
perks of, 202–203
privileges and immunities of,
203–204
professional staff, 203
religion of, 204
term of, 197
women as, 204
minority leader of, 213–214
minority-majority districts,
208–209
reapportionment, 205–209
redistricting, 205–206
Republican control of, 161–162
requirements for office, 172
Rules Committee of, 212
rules of, 201
seniority system, 212
size of, 201
speaker of, 213
whips in, 214
winning seat in, cost of, 205
House Rules Committee, 212
Housing
discrimination and, 99
housing assistance and federal
grants, 60
Housing and Urban Development,
Department of
functions of, 255
subagencies of, 255
Human rights, 342
Hussein, Saddam
First Gulf War and, 325
Iraq War and, 325I
Illegal immigrants
constitutional rights of, 105
path to citizenship for, 106
Immigrants/immigration, 303–305
Arizona immigration
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