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1. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Stare decisis
Women's suffrage
Medicare
2. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Hold
Horse race
Natural law
Tariff
3. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Revolving door
De jure segregation
Equal protection clause
President pro tempore
4. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Filibuster
amicus curiae brief
Candidate appeal
Medicare
5. 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.
Medical savings account
527 organizations
Plea bargain
Unemployment
6. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Search warrant
Recall
Constitutional Convention
Revolving door
7. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Incumbent
Majority rule
Isolationism
Racial gerrymandering
8. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Override
Honeymoon
Original jurisdiction
9. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Express powers
Constituents
Candidate appeal
Multilateralism
10. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Closed shop
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Monopoly
Unitary system
11. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Economic sanctions
Proportional representation
Caucus
Primary election
12. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Sedition
Natural rights
Divided government
Popular sovereignty
13. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
General election
Enumerated powers
Bill of attainder
Incumbent
14. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Unilateralism
Political ideology
Annapolis Convention
Medicaid
15. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional Convention
Retrospective issue of voting
Three-fifths compromise
Double jeopardy
16. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Safe seat
State of the Union Address
Gross domestic product (GDP)
State's rights
17. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Attentive public
Decentralists
De facto segregation
Protectionism
18. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Gerrymandering
Bush Doctrine
Bad tendency test
Trade deficit
19. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Seniority rule
Natural rights
Restrictive covenant
Judicial restraint
20. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Divided government
Theocracy
Writ of certiorari
21. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
Eminent domain
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Executive Office of the President
Take care clause
22. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Petit jury
Independent agency
Australian ballot
Writ of mandamus
23. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Independent regulatory commission
Articles of Confederation
Standing committee
Candidate appeal
24. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Shays's Rebellion
Proportional representation
Safe seat
Preferred position doctrine
25. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Contract clause
Prior restraint
Public choice
Gender gap
26. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Political party
Amicus curiae brief
Conservatism
Antifederalists
27. A national meeting of delegates elected in primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
National party convention
Tariff
Entitlement programs
Bicameralism
28. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
Bipartisanship
Incumbent
Department
29. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Green party
Presidential election
Categorical-formula grants
Contract clause
30. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Open rule
Manifest destiny
Tariff
Unilateralism
31. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Iron triangle
Preemption
Linkage institutions
32. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Divided government
Idealism
Writ of certiorari
Libel
33. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Precedent
Affirmative action
Hard power
Economic sanctions
34. The head of the White House staff.
Attentive public
Central clearance
Substantive due process
Chief of staff
35. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Referendum
Sound bites
Issue advocacy
Executive agreement
36. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Single-member district
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Administrative discretion
Redistricting
37. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Voter registration
Centralists
Entitlement programs
Double jeopardy
38. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Public opinion
Issue advocacy
Turnout
The Federalist
39. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Environmental impact statement
Independent agency
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Override
40. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Keynesian economics
Interstate compact
Take care clause
Pluralism
41. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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42. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Race
Inflation
Democratic consensus
Judicial review
43. 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.
Federalism
Soft money
Midterm election
Senatorial courtesy
44. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlement programs
Impoundment
Antitrust legislation
Immunity
45. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Collective action
Selective incorporation
Ex post facto law
World Trade Organization (WTO)
46. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Bicameralism
Horse race
Interstate compact
White primary
47. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Lobbyist
Majority rule
Green party
Offshoring
48. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Safe seat
Party convention
Iron triangle
Bundling
49. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Vouchers
Reapportionment
Spoils system
Express powers
50. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Central clearance
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Recall
Adversary system
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