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1. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Incumbent
Bicameralism
Regressive tax
Caucus
2. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Hold
Selective exposure
Full faith and credit clause
3. 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.
Discharge petition
Safe seat
Public defender system
The Federalist
4. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Environmental impact statement
Attentive public
Public assistance
Oversight
5. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Theocracy
Sales tax
'Necessary and proper' clause
Administrative discretion
6. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Turnout
Bicameralism
Interstate compact
Popular sovereignty
7. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Mass media
Direct primary
'Necessary and proper' clause
Trust
8. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Race
Literacy test
Turnout
Collective bargaining
9. 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.
Interest group
Redistricting
Idealism
National supremacy
10. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Government corporation
Prior restraint
Executive privilege
Libel
11. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Marble cake federalism
Government corporation
Libertarian party
Majority
12. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Joint committee
Unitary system
Monetarism
Democracy
13. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
'Our federalism'
Deregulation
Single-member district
Political predisposition
14. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Checks and balances
Interest group
Reform party
Impoundment
15. The right of women to vote.
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16. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Devolution revolution
Merit system
Constituents
Tariff
17. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Issue advocacy
Political socialization
Winner-take-all system
Realigning election
18. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Political action committee (PAC)
Unilateralism
Race
Line item veto
19. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Quid pro quo
Soft money
Libertarianism
Executive privilege
20. 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.
Political culture
Issue advocacy
'Our federalism'
Australian ballot
21. 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.
Primary election
Eminent domain
Australian ballot
Electoral college
22. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Original jurisdiction
Primary election
Immunity
Reapportionment
23. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Judicial activism
Means-tested entitlements
State's rights
Discharge petition
24. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Name recognition
Ethnocentrism
Express powers
Petit jury
25. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Idealism
Candidate appeal
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Rally point
26. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
National debt
Public assistance
Mandate
Opinion of the Court
27. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Constitutional democracy
Reapportionment
Bicameralism
Prospective issue voting
28. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Normal trade relations
Executive agreement
Minor party
Bureaucrat
29. 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
Safe seat
Political ideology
Concurrent powers
Equal protection clause
30. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
527 organizations
Equal protection clause
Entitlements
Commerce clause
31. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Full faith and credit clause
Public choice
Preemption
Whip
32. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Medicaid
Open shop
Socialism
Entitlement programs
33. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Total and Partial Preemption
President pro tempore
Administrative discretion
Cooperative federalism
34. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Line item veto
Judicial review
Obscenity
Party identification
35. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Green party
Random sample
Selected perception
Caucus
36. 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.
Original jurisdiction
Cross-cutting requirements
Tariff
Pocket veto
37. The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members - stockholders - or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
Political action committee (PAC)
Independent expenditure
Devolution revolution
Hold
38. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Procedural due process
Recall
Closed primary
De facto segregation
39. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
National supremacy
Justiciable dispute
Direct orders
Statism
40. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Plea bargain
Sales tax
National party convention
Theory of deterrence
41. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Caucus
Hold
Political socialization
Federalism
42. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Inflation
Open primary
Community policing
Nonpartisan election
43. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
New Jersey Plan
Jim Crow laws
Substantive due process
Lobbyist
44. 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
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Filibuster
Senatorial courtesy
Project grants
45. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Free rider
Restrictive covenant
Turnout
Impeachment
46. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Opinion of the Court
Union shop
Entitlement programs
Social Security
47. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Weapons of mass destruction
Issue advocacy
Democratic consensus
Retrospective issue of voting
48. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Political socialization
Adversary system
Cycle of decreasing influence
Joint committee
49. 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.
Social capital
Movement
Indictment
Selective incorporation
50. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Parliamentary system
Speaker
Excise tax
Political predisposition