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1. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Speaker
Dealignment
Jim Crow laws
Libertarian party
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
Safe seat
Gerrymandering
Three-fifths compromise
3. A national meeting of delegates elected at 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.
Reapportionment
National party convention
Normal trade relations
Progressive tax
4. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Criminal law
Clear and present danger test
Nonprotected speech
Political socialization
5. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Reinforcing cleavages
Social insurance
Fighting words
Attentive public
6. 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.
Normal trade relations
Safe seat
Turnout
Criminal law
7. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Distributive policy
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Iron triangle
Devolution revolution
8. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Bureaucrat
Safe seat
Women's suffrage
Ethnocentrism
9. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Environmental impact statement
Political socialization
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Obscenity
10. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Decentralists
'Necessary and proper' clause
11. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Sedition
Bicameralism
Closed shop
White primary
12. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
Writ of habeas corpus
Medical savings account
Political socialization
13. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Public assistance
Whip
Fiscal federalism
Block grants
14. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Party convention
Direct orders
Checks and balances
Cross-cutting requirements
15. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Due process clause
Laissez-faire economics
Retrospective issue of voting
Enumerated powers
16. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Federalists
Fundamentalists
De jure segregation
Candidate appeal
17. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Plurality
Closed primary
Antifederalists
Referendum
18. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
National Intelligence Director
Federal mandate
Iron triangle
Ethnocentrism
19. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Minor party
Seniority rule
Redistributive policy
Majority rule
20. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Impeachment
Offshoring
American dream
Writ of mandamus
21. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Sedition
Selected perception
Writ of habeas corpus
22. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Earmarks
Trade deficit
Laissez-faire economics
Open shop
23. 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.
Revolving door
Reapportionment
Political predisposition
Establishment clause
24. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Seniority rule
Ex post facto law
Judicial restraint
Manifest destiny
25. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Libel
Nonpartisan election
Socialism
Civil disobedience
26. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Primary election
Fighting words
Isolationism
Attentive public
27. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Sales tax
Name recognition
Sound bites
Logrolling
28. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Line item veto
Progressive tax
Collective bargaining
Gerrymandering
29. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Cooperative federalism
Midterm election
Line item veto
Decentralists
30. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Democratic consensus
Issue advocacy
Crossover sanctions
Progressive tax
31. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Leadership PAC
Establishment clause
Laissez-faire economics
Presidential ticket
32. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Monopoly
Collective action
Articles of Confederation
Quid pro quo
33. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Honeymoon
'Necessary and proper' clause
Confederation
Democracy
34. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Collective bargaining
Political socialization
Judicial restraint
Hard power
35. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Literacy test
Appellate jurisdiction
Soft money
Constitutionalism
36. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Whip
Preemption
Protectionism
Antifederalists
37. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Independent expenditure
Preemption
Impeachment
Sales tax
38. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Rally point
Representative democracy
Substantive due process
National supremacy
39. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Creative federalism
Ex post facto law
Competitive federalism
Tariff
40. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Antitrust legislation
Writ of habeas corpus
Voter registration
Cloture
41. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Deficit
Multilateralism
Initiative
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
42. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Contract clause
Precedent
Lobbying
Reinforcing cleavages
43. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Prior restraint
Mass media
Trustee
Commerce clause
44. 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.
Fundamentalists
Redistricting
Cross-cutting requirements
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
45. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Fiscal federalism
Isolationism
Public policy
Executive agreement
46. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
State of the Union Address
Clear and present danger test
Veto
Minor party
47. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Labor injunction
Collective bargaining
Quid pro quo
Recall
48. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Attentive public
Collective bargaining
Nonpartisan election
Express powers
49. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Right of expatriation
Political culture
Free exercise clause
Redistributive policy
50. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Safe seat
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Political action committee (PAC)
Retrospective issue of voting