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1. The head of the White House staff.
Social capital
Lobbyist
Articles of Confederation
Chief of staff
2. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Referendum
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
National debt
Cabinet
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
Tax expenditure
Independent agency
Quid pro quo
National tide
4. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Preferred position doctrine
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Hard money
Linkage institutions
5. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Value-added tax (VAT)
Political culture
Party caucus
6. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Statism
Interested money
Commerce clause
Marbury v. Madison
7. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Marble cake federalism
Hard power
Monopoly
Bundling
8. 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.
Realigning election
Due process
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Judicial review
9. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
Tax expenditure
Spoils system
Defendant
10. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Pocket veto
Libertarianism
Trust
11. 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
Deregulation
Incumbent
Dealignment
12. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
De facto segregation
Amicus curiae brief
Administrative discretion
Hard money
13. 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.
Coattail effect
Treaty
Party caucus
Prior restraint
14. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Logrolling
Equal protection clause
Pocket veto
Economic sanctions
15. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Plea bargain
Trustee
Social insurance
Soft money
16. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Antitrust legislation
Enumerated powers
Party identification
Judicial review
17. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Closed shop
Majority-minority district
Liberalism
18. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Interested money
Recall
Nonpartisan election
Unilateralism
19. 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.
Vouchers
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Joint committee
Regressive tax
20. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
Closed primary
Prior restraint
'Our federalism'
527 organizations
21. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Constituents
Entitlement programs
Trustee
Democratic consensus
22. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Bill of attainder
Initiative
Congressional-executive agreement
23. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Midterm election
Joint committee
Inherent powers
Bureaucracy
24. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Docket
Single-member district
Excise tax
Police powers
25. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Reapportionment
State's rights
Name recognition
Department
26. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Judicial restraint
Demographics
De facto segregation
Independent expenditures
27. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Quid pro quo
Redistricting
Social insurance
Attentive public
28. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Demographics
Closed shop
Judicial activism
Sales tax
29. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Political socialization
Natural rights
Congressional-executive agreement
Independent expenditures
30. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Seniority rule
Petit jury
Judicial activism
Race
31. 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.
Democratic consensus
Inflation
Recall
Turnout
32. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Implementation
Turnout
Marbury v. Madison
Antitrust legislation
33. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Medical savings account
Redistricting
Attentive public
34. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Earmarks
Natural law
Federal mandate
Weapons of mass destruction
35. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Grand jury
Court of appeals
Monopoly
Presidential ticket
36. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Restrictive covenant
Closed primary
Revolving door
Social insurance
37. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Right of expatriation
Justiciable dispute
New Jersey Plan
Bureaucracy
38. Segregation imposed by law.
De jure segregation
Executive Office of the President
Photo ops
Caucus
39. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Antitrust legislation
Safe seat
Winner-take-all system
Monopoly
40. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Medicaid
President pro tempore
Fighting words
Extradition
41. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Normal trade relations
Direct primary
Cooperative federalism
Rule-making process
42. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Judicial restraint
Political ideology
Coattail effect
Concurring opinion
43. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Cabinet
Substantive due process
Multilateralism
Right of expatriation
44. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Three-fifths compromise
President pro tempore
Cross-cutting requirements
45. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Representative democracy
Indexing
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Nonprotected speech
46. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Liberalism
Justiciable dispute
Executive order
Socioeconomic status (SES)
47. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Attentive public
Divided government
Natural rights
Political predisposition
48. 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.
527 organizations
Constitutional democracy
Implementation
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
49. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Articles of Confederation
State of the Union Address
Grand jury
Due process
50. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Indictment
Oversight
Political socialization
Excise tax