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1. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Lobbying
Movement
Dual citizenship
Patronage
2. Promoting a particular position or an issue by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate and - until 2004 had not been subject to regulation.
Issue advocacy
Presidential election
Three-fifths compromise
Bicameralism
3. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Soft power
Sales tax
Safe seat
Reform party
4. 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.
Mandate
Affirmative action
Political action committee (PAC)
Unemployment
5. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Popular sovereignty
Entitlements
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Party convention
6. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Gender gap
Cross-cutting requirements
Monetarism
Reinforcing cleavages
7. A rise in the general price level (and decrease in dollar value) owing to an increase in the volume of money and credit in relation to available goods.
Connecticut Compromise
Racial gerrymandering
Cooperative federalism
Inflation
8. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Judicial restraint
Theory of deterrence
Inherent powers
Inflation
9. 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
Merit system
Open primary
Writ of habeas corpus
10. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Three-fifths compromise
Veto
Connecticut Compromise
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
11. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Selected perception
Movement
Senatorial courtesy
Closed shop
12. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Caucus
Fiscal federalism
Demographics
Retrospective issue of voting
13. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Civil disobedience
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Popular sovereignty
Impoundment
14. 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
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Majority rule
Political ideology
15. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Judicial restraint
President pro tempore
Libel
Safe seat
16. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Democracy
Open shop
Redistricting
Full faith and credit clause
17. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional Convention
Civil disobedience
Class action suit
De jure segregation
18. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Idealism
Spoils system
Establishment clause
Pocket veto
19. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Weapons of mass destruction
Constitutional democracy
Monopoly
Issue network
20. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Soft money
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Due process clause
Cross-cutting requirements
21. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Federal Register
Popular sovereignty
Proportional representation
Executive privilege
22. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Offshoring
Free rider
Judicial review
Divided government
23. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Executive orders
Centralists
Criminal law
Take care clause
24. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Presidential ticket
Soft money
Speaker
General election
25. The right to vote.
Prospective issue voting
Trade deficit
Suffrage
Public opinion
26. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Interstate compact
Social insurance
Marble cake federalism
Interested money
27. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Regressive tax
Party caucus
Federalists
amicus curiae brief
28. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Means-tested entitlements
Safe seat
Medicaid
Immunity
29. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Uncontrollable spending
Substantive due process
Minority leader
Federalism
30. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Chief of staff
Original jurisdiction
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Political action committee (PAC)
31. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Bad tendency test
Racial profiling
Speaker
Petit jury
32. Segregation imposed by law.
Seniority rule
Socioeconomic status (SES)
De jure segregation
Hard money
33. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Divided government
Opinion of the Court
Direct democracy
Caucus
34. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Restrictive covenant
Senior Executive Service
Confederation
Constituents
35. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Weapons of mass destruction
Presidential election
Pluralism
Single-member district
36. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Reform party
News media
Full faith and credit clause
Establishment clause
37. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Interstate compact
Labor injunction
Obscenity
Value-added tax (VAT)
38. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Natural rights
Unfunded mandates
Quid pro quo
Monopoly
39. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Bill of attainder
Checks and balances
Marble cake federalism
40. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Earmarks
Regressive tax
Entitlement programs
Grand jury
41. 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.
Indictment
Bad tendency test
Safe seat
Deregulation
42. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Tariff
Bicameralism
Public assistance
Writ of certiorari
43. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Separation of powers
Concurrent powers
Conservatism
Crossover voting
44. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Movement
Executive orders
News media
Government corporation
45. 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.
Interest group
Distributive policy
Honeymoon
Search warrant
46. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Adversary system
Due process
Divided government
Lobbyist
47. The head of the White House staff.
Senatorial courtesy
Logrolling
Whip
Chief of staff
48. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Docket
Open shop
Justiciable dispute
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
49. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Selective exposure
Political culture
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Dissenting opinion
50. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Bipartisanship
Soft money
Poll tax
Department