Test 2

Front 1

Interest Groups

Back 1

Organizations that seek to achieve goals by influencing government decision making; they are essential sources of social capital.

Front 2

Electioneering

Back 2

An indirect strategy whereby interest groups work to influence the elections of candidates who support the organization's issue.

Front 3

Free Rider Problem

Back 3

The phenomenon of someone deriving benefit from others' actions. This issue is highlighted among the work put in for collective goods. Some people work for the cause and get the collective good, but so do the people who did not work for it but qualify.

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Lobby

Back 4

Hired professionals by interest groups whose job is to communicate directly with policy makers on an interest group's behalf. A common direct strategy.

Front 5

PAC

Back 5

Entity whose specific goal is to raise money for their interest group; these can be seen negatively because by using money to influence the outcome of an election, it makes money a vital force in American Politics.

Front 6

Political Parties

Back 6

An organization that recruits, nominates, and elects party members to office in order to control the government.

Front 7

Deallignment

Back 7

The situation in which fewer voters support the two major political parties, instead identifying themselves as independent, or splitting their tickets between candidates from more than one party. Political parties decrease in their importance and instead become a loose structure of government.

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Party Identifiers

Back 8

Individuals who identify with or tend to support a party. These are measured by party registration.

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Party Platform

Back 9

The formal statement of a party's principles and policy objectives. Broader speaking than interest groups; interest groups go detailed.

Front 10

Spoils System

Back 10

The practice of rewarding political supporters with jobs. Began with Jacksonian Democrats.

Front 11

Ticket Splitting

Back 11

When on a ballot, a voter votes for both parties

Front 12

Attentive Public

Back 12

The segment of voters who pay careful attention to political issues.

Front 13

Filibuster

Back 13

If the senate does not reach unanimous consent, the possibility of this arises. It is a procedural move by a member of the senate to attempt to halt the passage of or change a bill, during which the senator can speak for an unlimited time on the senate floor.

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Cloture

Back 14

A procedural move, initiated by a petition of at least 16 senators, in which a supermajority of 60 senators agrees to end a filibuster

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Reapportionment

Back 15

The reallocation of seats in the House of Representatives to each state based on changes in the state's population since the last census.

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Gerrymandering

Back 16

The redrawing of congressional boundaries to benefit an incumbent, a political party, or another group;

Front 17

Earmark

Back 17

Designations within spending bills that provide for specific expenditures;

Front 18

Social Capital

Back 18

The many ways in which our lives are improved by social connections.

Front 19

Collective Good

Back 19

Outcomes shared by the general public; also called public goods.