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1. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Regulations
Australian ballot
Open shop
Eminent domain
2. 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
Linkage institutions
Total and Partial Preemption
Honeymoon
Rally point
3. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Public defender system
Categorical-formula grants
Closed shop
Libel
4. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
The Federalist
Tax expenditure
Executive agreement
Gerrymandering
5. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Public assistance
Central clearance
Cross-cutting cleavages
Executive agreement
6. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Rule
Free exercise clause
Categorical-formula grants
Single-member district
7. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Offshoring
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Candidate appeal
Interstate compact
8. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Plurality
Civil law
Attentive public
Representative democracy
9. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Executive privilege
Class action suit
Government corporation
Earmarks
10. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Independent expenditure
Inherent powers
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Marble cake federalism
11. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Issue network
Ethnicity
Fiscal policy
Preferred position doctrine
12. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Due process clause
Social Security
Political ideology
Checks and balances
13. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Proportional representation
Capitalism
Public policy
Soft power
14. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Means-tested entitlements
Party identification
Cabinet
Bad tendency test
15. 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.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Defendant
Sedition
Majority
16. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Nonpartisan election
Social capital
Restrictive covenant
Safe seat
17. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Poll tax
Democracy
Ex post facto law
Suffrage
18. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Inflation
Conference committee
Extradition
Party identification
19. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Natural rights
Voter registration
Women's suffrage
Majority rule
20. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Concurrent powers
Fiscal policy
Independent expenditures
Obscenity
21. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Devolution revolution
Conservatism
Treaty
Isolationism
22. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Open shop
Special or select committee
Unfunded mandates
Plurality
23. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Earmarks
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Line item veto
Due process
24. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Fighting words
Regulatory taking
Issue advocacy
25. 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.
Fiscal federalism
Reinforcing cleavages
Issue network
Libertarianism
26. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Political party
Medicaid
Party identification
National tide
27. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Speaker
Justiciable dispute
Medical savings account
Property rights
28. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Antifederalists
Property rights
Veto
Executive order
29. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Crossover voting
Free rider
Docket
Candidate appeal
30. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Opinion of the Court
Unilateralism
Open rule
Multilateralism
31. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Class action suit
General election
Random sample
Recall
32. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Libertarianism
Affirmative action
President pro tempore
State's rights
33. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
American dream
Creative federalism
Executive order
Interested money
34. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Marbury v. Madison
Opinion of the Court
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Attentive public
35. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Keynesian economics
Plurality
Double jeopardy
Mandate
36. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Cooperative federalism
Federal Register
Means-tested entitlements
Racial profiling
37. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Marble cake federalism
Divided government
Public choice
Manifest opinion
38. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Unemployment
Concurrent powers
Chief of staff
Public defender system
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.
Eminent domain
Independent expenditures
Tariff
Selective exposure
40. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Statism
Normal trade relations
Progressive tax
Override
41. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Progressive tax
Representative democracy
Due process clause
Antitrust legislation
42. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Extradition
Docket
Federal Reserve System
Crossover sanctions
43. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Class action suit
Unilateralism
Indexing
Antitrust legislation
44. 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.
Writ of habeas corpus
Laissez-faire economics
Public opinion
Issue advocacy
45. 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.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Safe seat
Affirmative action
Total and Partial Preemption
46. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Soft money
Liberalism
Concurring opinion
Cycle of decreasing influence
47. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Conference committee
Defendant
Speaker
Gross domestic product (GDP)
48. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
White primary
Realigning election
Immunity
Open shop
49. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Collective bargaining
Turnout
Regulation
Necessary and proper clause
50. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Laissez-faire economics
Social Security
Public defender system
Pluralism