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1. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Independent expenditures
Closed rule
Theory of deterrence
Standing committee
2. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
Cabinet
Due process
Manifest opinion
Majority leader
3. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Political party
Demographics
Initiative
Recall
4. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Competitive federalism
Cross-cutting cleavages
Photo ops
Devolution revolution
5. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
Political socialization
Chief of staff
Attentive public
Competitive federalism
6. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Federal Reserve System
Writ of certiorari
Caucus
Fiscal policy
7. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Fiscal federalism
Delegate
Virginia Plan
Department
8. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.
Minor party
Bundling
Issue advocacy
Redistributive policy
9. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Checks and balances
World Trade Organization (WTO)
State's rights
Issue network
10. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Closed shop
Naturalization
Monopoly
Right of expatriation
11. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Independent expenditure
Proportional representation
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Rule-making process
12. The current holder of the elected office.
Laissez-faire economics
Incumbent
Keynesian economics
Direct democracy
13. 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.
Executive privilege
Labor injunction
Implied powers
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
14. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Gerrymandering
Uncontrollable spending
Winner-take-all system
Trade deficit
15. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Independent agency
Rider
Federalists
Independent expenditure
16. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Vouchers
Commercial speech
Due process
17. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p
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18. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Community policing
Faction
Leadership PAC
Redistributive policy
19. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
National Intelligence Director
Presidential ticket
Entitlement programs
Unilateralism
20. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Majority leader
Keynesian economics
Party identification
Spoils system
21. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Spoils system
Iron triangle
Jim Crow laws
Free rider
22. 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.
Public policy
Pocket veto
Direct democracy
Revolving door
23. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Override
Merit system
Antitrust legislation
Regulations
24. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Conference committee
Weapons of mass destruction
Court of appeals
Direct primary
25. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Voter registration
Conference committee
Coattail effect
Due process
26. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Public opinion
Tax expenditure
Opinion of the Court
Writ of mandamus
27. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Lobbyist
Weapons of mass destruction
Patronage
Women's suffrage
28. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Adversary system
Lobbying
Filibuster
Natural law
29. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Line item veto
Presidential election
Value-added tax (VAT)
Creative federalism
30. A career government employee.
Political ideology
Department
Bureaucrat
Seniority rule
31. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Docket
Random sample
Majority
Interest group
32. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Interested money
Preferred position doctrine
Parliamentary system
Poll tax
33. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Turnout
Constituents
Bicameralism
Party caucus
34. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Keynesian economics
Marbury v. Madison
Block grants
Ethnocentrism
35. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Gerrymandering
Referendum
Public opinion
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
36. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
'Our federalism'
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Dissenting opinion
Devolution revolution
37. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Mass media
Bush Doctrine
Annapolis Convention
Sedition
38. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Line item veto
Original jurisdiction
Community policing
39. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Realigning election
Senior Executive Service
Bureaucracy
Direct primary
40. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Natural rights
Restrictive covenant
Impeachment
Nonpartisan election
41. Media that emphasize the news.
Search warrant
News media
Reform party
Federalists
42. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Faction
Libertarianism
Whip
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
43. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Independent expenditures
Medicare
Soft power
Immunity
44. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.
Concurrent powers
Green party
Senior Executive Service
Movement
45. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Marble cake federalism
Fundamentalists
Midterm election
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
46. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Political predisposition
Oversight
Federal Reserve System
Open rule
47. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
amicus curiae brief
Bipartisanship
Bundling
Attentive public
48. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
National Intelligence Director
Fighting words
Social insurance
De facto segregation
49. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Libertarian party
Original jurisdiction
Executive agreement
Eminent domain
50. 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.
Full faith and credit clause
Indictment
Interstate compact
Interested money
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