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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Multilateralism
Political culture
Regulatory taking
Closed shop
2. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Majority-minority district
Democracy
Medicaid
Political predisposition
3. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Manifest destiny
Interest group
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Lobbyist
4. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Closed shop
Independent expenditure
Defendant
Government corporation
5. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Reinforcing cleavages
Ethnicity
Statism
Federalism
6. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Department
Joint committee
Issue advocacy
Precedent
7. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Rule
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Public defender system
Amicus curiae brief
8. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Department
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
News media
Creative federalism
9. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
Tax expenditure
Marble cake federalism
Single-member district
10. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Judicial restraint
Bad tendency test
Free rider
Unilateralism
11. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Idealism
Independent expenditures
Policy agenda
Plurality
12. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Social insurance
Nonpartisan election
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Offshoring
13. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Regulation
Take care clause
Political socialization
Indexing
14. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Block grants
Civil disobedience
Party identification
Labor injunction
15. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Party identification
Party caucus
Proportional representation
President pro tempore
16. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Enumerated powers
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Concurrent powers
Suffrage
17. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Checks and balances
Executive privilege
Writ of habeas corpus
Union shop
18. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Iron triangle
Closed shop
Obscenity
Majority leader
19. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Pluralism
Unilateralism
Centralists
Separation of powers
20. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Unemployment
Coattail effect
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Environmental impact statement
21. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Primary election
Theory of deterrence
Police powers
Bill of attainder
22. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Community policing
Equal protection clause
Right of expatriation
Racial gerrymandering
23. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Prior restraint
Express powers
Coattail effect
Fiscal federalism
24. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Nonprotected speech
Full faith and credit clause
Impeachment
Fundamentalists
25. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Redistributive policy
Speaker
Iron triangle
Midterm election
26. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Gender gap
Government corporation
Judicial activism
27. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Political ideology
Gerrymandering
Hard power
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
28. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Stare decisis
Defendant
Political predisposition
29. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Coattail effect
Normal trade relations
Chief of staff
Soft money
30. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Seniority rule
Constitutional Convention
National supremacy
Iron triangle
31. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Women's suffrage
Mass media
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Distributive policy
32. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Property rights
Liberalism
Devolution revolution
Original jurisdiction
33. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Political ideology
Impeachment
Manifest opinion
Medicaid
34. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Minority leader
Pluralism
Medicare
Rider
35. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Marbury v. Madison
Soft power
Veto
Deficit
36. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Discharge petition
Isolationism
Connecticut Compromise
Cross-cutting requirements
37. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Protectionism
Realigning election
Decentralists
Free rider
38. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Crossover voting
Direct primary
Majority-minority district
Popular consent
39. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Clear and present danger test
Impeachment
Judicial review
Special or select committee
40. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Divided government
Capitalism
Public defender system
Connecticut Compromise
41. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Political socialization
Judicial activism
Monopoly
Plea bargain
42. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Manifest opinion
Interstate compact
Appellate jurisdiction
Bad tendency test
43. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Demographics
Class action suit
Criminal law
Procedural due process
44. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Manifest opinion
Total and Partial Preemption
Impeachment
Indictment
45. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Prospective issue voting
Political culture
Divided government
Trust
46. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Medicare
Soft power
Photo ops
Discharge petition
47. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Monopoly
Bipartisanship
Naturalization
Cabinet
48. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Environmental impact statement
Political action committee (PAC)
Executive Office of the President
Mass media
49. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Soft money
Unfunded mandates
Senior Executive Service
Gerrymandering
50. Promoting a particular position or an issue by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate and - until 2004 had not been subject to regulation.
Precedent
Issue advocacy
Tax expenditure
Soft money