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1. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Selected perception
Soft money
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
2. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Political culture
Enumerated powers
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Direct primary
3. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Dual citizenship
Eminent domain
Concurrent powers
Redistributive policy
4. Media that emphasize the news.
Community policing
Proportional representation
News media
Liberalism
5. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Retrospective issue of voting
Open rule
Gerrymandering
Issue advocacy
6. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Democratic consensus
National Intelligence Director
Pocket veto
Crossover sanctions
7. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Interstate compact
National debt
Direct democracy
Australian ballot
8. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Three-fifths compromise
Offshoring
Executive Office of the President
Bad tendency test
9. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Establishment clause
Class action suit
Unitary system
Popular consent
10. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Trust
Oversight
Collective action
Conference committee
11. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Social insurance
Revolving door
Winner-take-all system
Political predisposition
12. 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
Party registration
Popular sovereignty
Progressive tax
13. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Primary election
Categorical-formula grants
Establishment clause
Crossover voting
14. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Impoundment
Attentive public
Socialism
Closed rule
15. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Fighting words
Dealignment
General election
The Federalist
16. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Oversight
Independent regulatory commission
Racial gerrymandering
Libertarian party
17. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Free rider
Creative federalism
Theory of deterrence
Reapportionment
18. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Attentive public
Marble cake federalism
Centralists
Soft money
19. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Political action committee (PAC)
Docket
Commerce clause
Regressive tax
20. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Dealignment
National party convention
Tax expenditure
Criminal law
21. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Hatch Act
Concurrent powers
Special or select committee
Monetarism
22. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Referendum
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Commerce clause
Women's suffrage
23. 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.
Defendant
Poll tax
Special or select committee
Due process clause
24. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Defendant
Ex post facto law
Linkage institutions
Winner-take-all system
25. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
General election
Political culture
Cooperative federalism
Demographics
26. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Theory of deterrence
Demographics
Pluralism
27. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for 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 any regulation.
Inherent powers
Justiciable dispute
Issue advocacy
Commerce clause
28. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Monopoly
Sales tax
Contract clause
Australian ballot
29. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Majority
Public defender system
Constituents
Party identification
30. 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.
Medicare
Commerce clause
Liberalism
Extradition
31. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Majority
Social insurance
Take care clause
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
32. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
'Our federalism'
Unilateralism
Racial profiling
Medicare
33. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Executive privilege
Public assistance
Democracy
34. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Trade deficit
Rider
Public defender system
Soft money
35. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Separation of powers
Majority
Lobbyist
Reapportionment
36. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Full faith and credit clause
Conference committee
Keynesian economics
Vouchers
37. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Gender gap
Court of appeals
Commercial speech
Patronage
38. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Reinforcing cleavages
Sound bites
Vouchers
Soft money
39. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Recall
Social insurance
Monopoly
Community policing
40. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Popular sovereignty
Defendant
Entitlement programs
Union shop
41. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Grand jury
Block grants
Selective exposure
Civil law
42. 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
National supremacy
Conservatism
Independent regulatory commission
43. 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.
Federal Reserve System
Separation of powers
Executive Office of the President
Presidential election
44. 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.
Devolution revolution
Tariff
Quid pro quo
Plea bargain
45. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Trustee
Inflation
Rally point
Soft power
46. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Due process clause
Bill of attainder
Natural rights
News media
47. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
President pro tempore
Devolution revolution
Restrictive covenant
Political culture
48. 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.
Constituents
Writ of habeas corpus
Treaty
Photo ops
49. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Opinion of the Court
President pro tempore
Federal Reserve System
Crossover sanctions
50. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Faction
Docket
Offshoring
'Our federalism'