Poly Sci Final Quiz

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Veto

Back 1

The president's power to deny a Bill

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War Powers resolution

Back 2

Set laws for the president in committing forces to battle

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Pardon

Back 3

Forgiveness of a crime by the president

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Executive Office of the President

Back 4

-OMB (office of management and budgent) manages presidential budget
-National Security Council informs the president on national security

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Lame Duck

Back 5

A president that cannot be elected for another term

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Patronage

Back 6

The resources available to a politician to reward service

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Cabinet

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Executive branch departments

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Cabinet departments

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State, Treasury Defense Justice Interior Agriculture Commence Labor Health and human service Housing and Urban Development Transportation Energy Education Veterans Affairs Homeland security

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Civil Servant

Back 9

Part of the federal bureaucracy
-Hard to fire
-Breaks (slows) the power of the president

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Going Public

Back 10

Talking to the media to influence congress

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Nationalization of the news

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1.Newswires: Associated Press
2.TV networks
3.National Newspaper
4."Elite" Newspaper
5.National news magazine

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News Enclaves

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Smaller sources of news
(internet)

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Commercial bias

Back 13

News reflecting certain perspectives (aimed possibly to simply get viewers)

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Pack Journalism

Back 14

Journalists come to common areas

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Selective Exposure

Back 15

people watch what they agree with

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Selective perception

Back 16

people think they way they want to think

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Beat system

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Each journalist is assigned to a venue (area) of story coverage

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Salience

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How central your opinion is to other people's opinions

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Sample size

Back 19

The amount of people that took a poll

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Stereotype

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A non-neutral image of the world that precedes reason and conditions the formation of opinion

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Respondent

Back 21

the people who take the surveys

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Push Poll

Back 22

Negative campaigning disguised as a poll

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Random selection

Back 23

A completely random selection of people

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Straw poll

Back 24

poll to find people's opinion on a topic (Not random and used at state conventions)

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Exit Poll

Back 25

Poll taking as you leave a voting area to find trends

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SLOP poll

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(Self Selected Listener Opinion Poll) people volunteer to answer questions

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The public Affairs Act of 1975

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Not a real act but it was used to see how people respond to polls

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Question order

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Ordering questions to get a certain answer
example asking about free speech then about flag burning

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Question wording

Back 29

1.Double Barreled question
-2 questions in 1
2. Balanced arguments
- wording a question to get a certain answer

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Party Identification

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What party you belong to

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Recruitment

Back 31

identifying potential candidates and supporting them in election efforts

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Split-ticket Voting

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Voting for both parties

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Caucus

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Party leaders controlling candidate election (candidate elections)

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Convention

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Held to elect candidates

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Primary

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Vote for candidate for presidential election

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Candidate-centered election

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Held in parties themselves
-election based on the person instead of the issues

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Single-member plurality system

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Legislative seats are awarded to the candidate with a plurality (most votes)
"winner take all"

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Duverger's Law

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states that the Single member plurality system seems to favor only 2 political parties

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Proportional representation

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Seats are distributed by the percent of votes that the party received

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Electoral College

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The people we elect to elect the president

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Apportionment of electors

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Split up by districts (i think)

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Faithless elector

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And elector that doesn't vote for who they say the will

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Primaries

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Vote for party candidate for presidential election

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Swing State

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States that do not tend to vote for a single party

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Determinants of voter turnout

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1. Education more educated more likely to vote
2.Wealth more wealthy more likely
3.Gender women are more likely
4. Race and Ethnicity Whites more likely
5. Age older people are more likely to vote

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Adequate Yearly Progress

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The standards set by the federal government that schools need to meet in order to receive Title 1 money

1. Proficiency
2. Participation
3. Attendance
4. Graduation

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Achievement Gap

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Gap between white and minority student performance

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Unfunded Mandate

Back 48

Federal government telling states to do something but not paying for it

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Title 1

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Federal money given to schools so they can regulate education