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1. 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
Federal Reserve System
Procedural due process
Open shop
2. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Issue advocacy
Entitlement programs
Candidate appeal
Immunity
3. 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
Affirmative action
Majority rule
National tide
Political party
4. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Inherent powers
President pro tempore
Popular consent
Honeymoon
5. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Turnout
The Federalist
Public defender system
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
6. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Constituents
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Racial profiling
Federal Reserve System
7. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
State's rights
Civil disobedience
Nonpartisan election
Precedent
8. A president's claim of broad public support.
Literacy test
News media
Initiative
Mandate
9. A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
Medicare
Party caucus
Majority rule
Direct primary
10. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Regulations
Public choice
Inherent powers
Keynesian economics
11. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Jim Crow laws
Mass media
Necessary and proper clause
Political socialization
12. 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.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Selective incorporation
Federal Register
Articles of Confederation
13. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Confederation
Quid pro quo
Australian ballot
Divided government
14. 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.
Extradition
Medicare
Revolving door
Plea bargain
15. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Pocket veto
Rule-making process
Inherent powers
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
16. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Sound bites
New Jersey Plan
Political party
'Our federalism'
17. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Electoral college
Linkage institutions
Manifest destiny
Necessary and proper clause
18. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Reform party
De facto segregation
Spoils system
Excise tax
19. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Pocket veto
Race
Decentralists
Conservatism
20. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Soft money
National debt
Political culture
Executive agreement
21. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Interested money
Conference committee
Turnout
Divided government
22. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
Restrictive covenant
Express powers
Winner-take-all system
Ethnocentrism
23. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Jim Crow laws
Constitutional democracy
Interest group
Permissive federalism
24. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Speaker
Senatorial courtesy
Three-fifths compromise
Ethnocentrism
25. 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.
Bureaucracy
Redistricting
Presidential ticket
Internationalism
26. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Economic sanctions
Enumerated powers
Express powers
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
27. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Presidential ticket
Regulation
Plea bargain
28. 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
Double jeopardy
Cloture
Value-added tax (VAT)
29. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Central clearance
Bureaucracy
Discharge petition
Quid pro quo
30. 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.
Crossover voting
Antitrust legislation
Cabinet
Caucus
31. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Bill of attainder
National party convention
Bipartisanship
Excise tax
32. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Presidential ticket
Political ideology
Turnout
Trade deficit
33. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Reinforcing cleavages
Proportional representation
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Green party
34. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Property rights
Public policy
Realism
Antitrust legislation
35. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Petit jury
Party caucus
Rider
Antifederalists
36. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Hard money
Hold
Right of expatriation
Popular sovereignty
37. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
State of the Union Address
Incumbent
Bundling
Trade deficit
38. 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
Soft power
Minority leader
Hard money
39. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Total and Partial Preemption
Appellate jurisdiction
Weapons of mass destruction
Divided government
40. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
Divided government
Majority rule
Honeymoon
41. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Ethnicity
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Procedural due process
Extradition
42. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Attentive public
Natural rights
Inherent powers
Multilateralism
43. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Due process clause
Merit system
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Issue network
44. 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.
Preferred position doctrine
Keynesian economics
Random sample
Free rider
45. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Independent expenditure
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Commercial speech
Due process clause
46. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Primary election
Block grants
Civil disobedience
Libertarianism
47. 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.
Due process clause
Creative federalism
Statism
Fiscal policy
48. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Social capital
Electoral college
Photo ops
Social Security
49. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
The Federalist
Logrolling
Unilateralism
Libel
50. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Independent agency
Reapportionment
Precedent
Social insurance