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1. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Proportional representation
Prospective issue voting
Right of expatriation
2. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Sedition
Political ideology
Administrative discretion
Annapolis Convention
3. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Redistricting
Earmarks
Social Security
Socioeconomic status (SES)
4. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
President pro tempore
Implementation
Mass media
Literacy test
5. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Party convention
Affirmative action
Dissenting opinion
Hard power
6. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Laissez-faire economics
Social Security
Coattail effect
Party registration
7. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Honeymoon
Midterm election
Political socialization
8. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Value-added tax (VAT)
'Our federalism'
Crossover voting
Stare decisis
9. 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.
Incumbent
Winner-take-all system
Obscenity
Gerrymandering
10. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Full faith and credit clause
Adversary system
Precedent
Federalism
11. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Conservatism
Hold
Majority rule
Presidential election
12. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Soft money
Antitrust legislation
State of the Union Address
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
13. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Decentralists
Fiscal federalism
Articles of Confederation
Party identification
14. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Due process
Safe seat
Community policing
15. A president's claim of broad public support.
Redistributive policy
Mandate
Override
Cross-cutting cleavages
16. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Search warrant
Collective bargaining
Direct primary
17. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
State of the Union Address
Executive orders
Treaty
Deficit
18. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Bureaucracy
Libertarianism
Open shop
19. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Administrative discretion
Trustee
Special or select committee
Excise tax
20. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Pocket veto
Laissez-faire economics
Primary election
Photo ops
21. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Bicameralism
Fighting words
Monopoly
Cabinet
22. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Senatorial courtesy
Docket
Literacy test
Bipartisanship
23. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Veto
Standing committee
Economic sanctions
Marbury v. Madison
24. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Pocket veto
Implied powers
Take care clause
Implementation
25. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Whip
Reinforcing cleavages
Permissive federalism
Presidential ticket
26. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Entitlement programs
Progressive tax
Honeymoon
State of the Union Address
27. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Social insurance
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Project grants
28. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Caucus
Free rider
Concurring opinion
29. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Veto
Block grants
Libertarianism
30. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Nonprotected speech
Voter registration
Writ of certiorari
Antifederalists
31. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Pluralism
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Keynesian economics
Monopoly
32. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Lobbying
Override
Speaker
Checks and balances
33. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Criminal law
Democracy
Means-tested entitlements
President pro tempore
34. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Monetarism
Executive agreement
Conservatism
35. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Libertarianism
Regulation
Party caucus
Criminal law
36. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Veto
Selective incorporation
Unfunded mandates
Trust
37. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Whip
Collective action
Amicus curiae brief
Government corporation
38. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Collective action
Project grants
Electoral college
Whip
39. A career government employee.
Democracy
Logrolling
Independent regulatory commission
Bureaucrat
40. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
News media
Prior restraint
Project grants
Concurrent powers
41. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Impoundment
Political ideology
Issue network
Affirmative action
42. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Spoils system
Filibuster
Constituents
Presidential election
43. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
National supremacy
Tariff
Community policing
Constitutional democracy
44. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Necessary and proper clause
Party convention
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Direct democracy
45. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Adversary system
Obscenity
Fiscal federalism
Bundling
46. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Lobbying
Line item veto
Defendant
Capitalism
47. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Executive agreement
Implied powers
Presidential election
Realism
48. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Reapportionment
Social capital
Total and Partial Preemption
49. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Photo ops
Lobbyist
Confederation
Federal mandate
50. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Antifederalists
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Patronage