Term
The legalization and/ or funding for controversial issues such as:
-Stem Cell research
-Abolishing the death penalty
-Environment regulation/ conservation
-State/ Country wide health care
- Tax cuts for everyone but the rich
-GLBT rights
-Cutting military funding/ pulling troops |
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- Problems with welfare, unemployment, and education should be handle by state gov't, not national
-Less Gov't
-Outlawing and limiting GLBT marriage/ rights
-The implemented of more strict immigration laws
-Against taxing the rich more than middle/ lower class citizens
-Pro-small business/ Against minimum wage increases
-Pro military/ opposes military fund cuts
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A group of political activists who organize to:
-win elections
-operate the gov't
-Determine public policy |
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| Smaller groups that try to obtain power or benefits |
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| Why are American Parties weak and what are the consequences of this? |
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Why are political parties are weak:
- Little control over
nominations
-Little control over elected
officials
-Consequences of Weak Parties:
-Representatives are free to
address the interests of
local and special interest
constituencies. |
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• Single member districts-
Winner-takes-all
• State and federal laws
favoring two parties |
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| Consequences of Responsible |
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-Consequences of Responsible
Party Systems
Representatives address the
national policy goals of
their respective parties. |
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Definition
| Gave African Americans the legal right to vote |
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Definition
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Definition
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| Gave 18 yr olds the right to vote |
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| What are some reasons for the decline in voter turn out? |
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Definition
-Registration requirements
-Uninformed media coverage/ negative campaigning |
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| Which (age/sex/ race ect.)groups tend to vote more? |
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Definition
| Higher educated, higher income, older citizens who are predominantly white or black. |
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| What happens at National Party Conventions? |
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Definition
Held every four years (in summer) in
major cities
• Delegates are more ideologically
extreme—why?
• Officially nominates the party’s
presidential candidate- majority needed
• Approves the party’s platform |
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| Targeting only a few more powerful political influences |
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| Targets as many of the lower group members as possible |
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| What are the advantages of voting by mail? |
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| Government funding loop holes |
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| meetings of party members |
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| Someone who benefits from the efforts of an interest group with out joining or paying dues to said group |
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| Someone who benefits from the efforts of an interest group with out joining or paying dues to said group |
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Term
| Advantages and disadvantages of interest group participation |
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Definition
Advantages:
Disadvantages: |
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| What is the purpose of national party conventions |
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Definition
• Simply a media
event that with no
real purpose.
• Help to Unify the
party and educate
the voters about
the candidates |
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Term
| Example of Single interest groups |
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Definition
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| Example of Economic groups |
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Definition
-Business/ trade orgs.
-Agriculture
-Labor
-Public Employee unions
-Groups of professionals |
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| Example of a public interest group |
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Definition
-Groups that have the mass majority's interest at heart
-Nader's Org, ACLU, Environmental groups, Ideological and Religious groups |
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| Who joins groups and what are some incentives for joining groups? |
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Definition
-Solitary incentives- a sense of belonging
-Material incentives- prizes, insurances, things awarded to members that have monetary value
-Purposive incentives- pride when the goals of the company/ organization are met. |
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| What/Who can check the power of organized interest/ factions? |
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-Large community with lots of competing interests
-Separation of powers
-Madison's theory |
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| What takes place at the Democratic and Republican national convention? |
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-Nominates presidential candidates
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| How are the Democratic and Republican Party nominees for president officially selected? |
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| National Party Conventions |
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| What are the regular activities of a lobbyist? |
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Definition
Private Meetings
• Testifying before congressional
committees
• Testifying before executive
agencies
• Entertaining |
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| How are National Convention delegates selected? |
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Definition
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What are party eras?
Give an example |
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Definition
Periods in which one party
dominates or competition is stable
- Example: New Deal coalition of
1932-1968- Democrats dominant
-Example: 1968- present- era of
divided government |
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| How does the Electoral College work? |
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Definition
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Groups of
voters switch party allegiance,
producing a long-term change
in the political landscape. |
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Definition
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| An example of lobbyists that is referred to as 'hired guns'. |
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Definition
-Most lobbyists are hired guns
-A lobbyist that works for a lobbying firm and has several other clients.
Ex. Thank You For Smoking |
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| Criticisms of the Electoral College |
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Definition
• Winner of the popular vote
may not be elected.
• Faithless Elector
• Small states overrepresented |
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| Define Legitimacy. What improves legitimacy? |
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Definition
Acceptance of the gov't
-Voting/ participation |
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Define Jim Crow Laws
What was there purpose? |
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Definition
| Jim Crow laws segregated black and white and kept black citizens from voting. |
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What term describes how American
political parties are organized? |
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Definition
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Which political party dominated between
1932-1968? |
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Definition
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| The NRA is what type of interest group? |
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Definition
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Name one of three criticisms of the
Electoral College. |
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Definition
• Winner of the popular vote
may not be elected.
• Faithless Elector
• Small states overrepresented |
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Name all three of the methods for
selecting delegates to the national party conventions? |
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Definition
• Each state has as many electors as
Senators and Representatives
• Electors chosen by state parties
• Winner-take-all- winner of the
popular vote gets all the state’s
electoral votes |
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Term
Identify one method of indirect
lobbying. |
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Definition
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Term
| Consequences of responsible party systems |
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Definition
Representatives address the
national policy goals of
their respective parties. |
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Term
Candidate must receive majority
(270 electoral votes). If not,
president is selected by House. |
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Definition
| 3 come from Washington, DC |
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Term
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| Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 |
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Definition
• Signed by LBJ
• Assured equal access to voting
• Amended frequently/Extended in
2006
• Preclearance-New voting practices
must be approved by Dept. of
Justice |
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