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44 Cards in this Set
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Apathetic Public |
The public doesn't care about politics. |
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Political Participation |
The public was previously believed to be apathetic towards government. Disproved by Vaba and Nye in their study of 1972. Finding that the public is politically involved except when voting. |
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Public Opinion |
The stated preference that people express about issues, policies, and politicians. |
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Intensity |
How strongly the public feels about a political topic |
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Saliency |
The relevance of a political topic to one's self |
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Stability |
How stable the public's opinion on a topic is |
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Political Ideaology |
The complex set of ideas that are incorporated early in people's lives |
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Political Culture |
Values that a given society holds. Example: Americans valuing freedom and democracy |
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Political Socialization |
How we acquire our political beliefs. Examples: Family and School |
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Straw Polls |
Arbitrary, random and biased in information. |
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Random-Sample Polls |
Sample various areas randomly to answer a specific question. It helps to know where, when and the margin of error.
1500 people is a large enough sample size for Random-Sample polls. |
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Halo Effect |
Providing socially acceptable answers when asked questions |
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Political Parties |
Groups that want to take control of the government.
Not in the constitution, believed to be agents of disunity. Politics originally had the federalists and anti-federalists. |
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Party Platforms |
Where a party stands on issues debated on during elections. |
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Three-Headed Giants |
Parties are comprised of organizers, the electorate, and officials |
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Party Identification |
Independent, Democrats, Republicans |
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Third Parties |
All political parties other than the Republican or Democratic. |
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Electoral College |
A collection of voters made under the idea that States choose electors to vote for presidents. 538 voters altogether. |
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History of Democratic Party |
Government began with two factions, feds and anti-feds.
Thomas Jefferson won the 1800 election, destroying the federalist party. The Anti-Federalists became the Democratic-Republicans.
In 1828, Andrew Jackson turned the party into just the Democrats. |
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History of Republican Party |
The Whig party was made to pay homage to the British empire's empathetic Whig party during the Revolutionary War.
The Whig Party made two presidents: 1840 - William Henry Harrison 1848 - Zachary Taylor
After, the Whig party joined with anti-slavery Democrats to form the Republican party.
With the formation of the Republican party, South Carolina said they'd succeed from the union, generating the Civil War. |
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Party Structure |
Precincts, Wards, State, and National levels all organize who runs for office, manages finances, and develops campaigns. |
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Primaries |
Members of parties vote to see who will be nominated. |
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Open Primary |
Vote on whichever ballad you want. |
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Closed Primary |
People are registered to vote on either the Republican or Democratic ballad each time they go to vote. |
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Caucuses |
A meeting to debate and decide who will represent a party at a national convention. It takes 1/3rd of State votes to do this. |
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Political Convention |
Is a meeting for a political party to typically select candidates or nominees. |
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Presidential Debates |
A customary debate between the political candidates of the two largest parties. Used to convince undecided voters to decide for one or the other. |
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Interest Groups |
Generally Economic, Activist groups, or Government Related |
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Lobbyist |
Representatives for PACs. No restrictions on who can be a lobbyist, but they're generally experienced with government. |
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Political Action Committees |
A business or group of businesses that act like interest groups. |
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Equal Time Rule |
Businesses may not discriminate based on whether they favor a presidential candidate or not. |
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Selective Exposure |
Political exposure based on what one's existing beliefs. |
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Voter Characteristics |
1. White people 2. College educated 3. Larger Income (More than median) 4. White Collar Jobs 5. Current or Previous Government Employee 6. Married 7. Urban Folk |
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Yellow Journalism |
Sensationalism, or grossly exaggerating |
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1986 Fairness Doctrine |
Press no longer has to show the opposite political parties viewpoints anymore because it is so readily available elsewhere. |
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Sources of Campaign Funding |
1. Individual Contributions 2. Candidates 3. Political Action Committees 4. Party Fundraising |
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Partisanship |
A person's political party |
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Reapportioning |
Changing the amount of people a representative will represent during a census. |
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Popular Vote |
Vote determined by the people |
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Electoral Vote |
Vote determined by the Electoral College |
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Congressional District
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A district of people that elects and is represented by a member of the house.
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12th Amendment |
Defined how the president is elected through the Electoral college. Each member has one vote that is cast to a candidate with the majority of votes declaring the new president. |
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2002 - BCRA - Bi Partisan Campaign Reform Act |
McCain-Feingold - Banned soft money contributions at the national level. Raised the average contribution to $2000 per person due to inflation. |
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1971 - FECA - Federal Election Campaign Act |
Limited contributions from people to campaigns to $1000 per person. Business could no longer give money to campaigns.
People were still able to provide soft money contributions to nominees by providing money to their party. |
