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21 Cards in this Set
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What are air wars?
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A term that refers to the fact that modern campaigns are often a battle of opposing telelvised advertisign campaigns.
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What is cadidate-centered politics?
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Election campaigns and other political processes in which candidates, not political parties, have most of the initiative and inflluence.
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What is grassroots party?
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A political party organized at the level of the voters and dependent on their support for its strength.
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What is hand money?
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Campaign funds given directly to candidates to spend as they choose.
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What is hired guns?
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The professional consultants who run campaigns for high office.
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What is money chase?
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A term used to describe the fact that U.S. campaigns are very expensive and that candidates must spend a great amunt of time raising funds in order to compete successfully.
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What is multiparty system?
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A system in which three or more political parties have the capacity to gsin control of government separately or in coalition.
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What is nomination?
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The designation of a particular individual to run as a political party's candidate (its nominee) in the general election.
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What is packaging (of a cadidate)?
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A term of modern campaigning that refers to the process of recasting a cadidate's records into as appealing image.
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What is party-centered politics?
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Electoin campaigns and other political processes in which political parties, not individual candidates, hold most of the initiative and influence.
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What is party coalition?
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The groups and interests that supprt a political party.
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What is party competition?
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A process in which conflict over society's goals is tranformed by political parties into electoral competition in which the winer gains the power to govern.
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What is party organizations?
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The party organizational units at national, state, and local levels.
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What is party realignment?
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An election or set of elections in which the electorate responds strongly to an extraordinarily powerful issue that has disrupted the established political order.
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What is a political party?
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An ongoing coalition of interests joined together to try to get their candidates for public office elected under a common label.
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What is proportional representation?
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A form of representation in which seats in the legislature are allocated proportionally according to each political party's share of the popular vote/
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What is service relationship?
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The situation in which party organizaations assist candidates for office but have no power to require them to accept or campaign on the party's main policy positions.
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What are single-member districts?
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The form of representation in which only the candidate who gets the most votes in a district wins office.
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What is soft money?
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Campaign contributions that are not subject to legal limits and are given to parites rather than directly to candidates.
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What is split ticket?
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The pattern of voting in which the individual voter in a given election casts a ballot for one or more cnaidates of each major party.
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What is a two-party system?
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A system in which only tw political parties have a real chance of acquiring control of the government.
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