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1. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Crossover voting
Impeachment
Sales tax
Dual citizenship
2. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Gerrymandering
Jim Crow laws
Keynesian economics
Attentive public
3. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Justiciable dispute
Fundamentalists
National party convention
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
4. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Laissez-faire economics
Keynesian economics
Movement
Green party
5. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
Revolving door
Closed shop
Independent expenditure
6. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Hard power
Party identification
Crossover voting
Reapportionment
7. 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.
Soft money
Unitary system
Turnout
Bad tendency test
8. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Closed shop
Referendum
Political ideology
Judicial restraint
9. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Medical savings account
Union shop
Trustee
Line item veto
10. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Unemployment
Bill of attainder
Political culture
Joint committee
11. 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
Ethnocentrism
National party convention
National supremacy
12. 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.
National supremacy
Safe seat
Impeachment
Joint committee
13. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Open shop
Free rider
Mass media
Bad tendency test
14. 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.
Majority rule
Reapportionment
Green party
Public choice
15. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Bush Doctrine
Bureaucracy
Opinion of the Court
Constituents
16. 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
Preferred position doctrine
Regulations
Total and Partial Preemption
17. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Proportional representation
Mandate
Marbury v. Madison
Prospective issue voting
18. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Trust
Indictment
Bicameralism
Single-member district
19. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Federalism
Antitrust legislation
Keynesian economics
Logrolling
20. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Soft money
Confederation
Unitary system
21. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Political party
Devolution revolution
Candidate appeal
Federal mandate
22. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Double jeopardy
Bush Doctrine
Regressive tax
Federal Reserve System
23. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Popular consent
Fighting words
Manifest opinion
Conservatism
24. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Whip
Deregulation
Initiative
Permissive federalism
25. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Annapolis Convention
Plea bargain
Party caucus
26. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Reinforcing cleavages
Public assistance
Enumerated powers
Direct orders
27. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Treaty
Protectionism
Caucus
Property rights
28. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Seniority rule
Independent expenditures
Name recognition
Faction
29. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Green party
Iron triangle
Incumbent
Right of expatriation
30. 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.
Dual citizenship
Proportional representation
Substantive due process
Full faith and credit clause
31. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Soft money
Weapons of mass destruction
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
32. 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.
Hard money
Closed shop
Commercial speech
Establishment clause
33. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Reinforcing cleavages
Trustee
Obscenity
Independent expenditures
34. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Monopoly
Judicial review
Racial gerrymandering
Majority-minority district
35. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Free rider
Executive privilege
Collective bargaining
Retrospective issue of voting
36. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Dual citizenship
Fiscal policy
Virginia Plan
Closed primary
37. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Search warrant
Collective bargaining
Party identification
Literacy test
38. 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.
Precedent
Issue advocacy
Natural rights
Interest group
39. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Proportional representation
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Reform party
Issue network
40. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Commercial speech
Unilateralism
Divided government
Majority
41. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
amicus curiae brief
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Reinforcing cleavages
White primary
42. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Divided government
Uncontrollable spending
Isolationism
Libertarianism
43. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Permissive federalism
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Writ of habeas corpus
Parliamentary system
44. 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.
Shays's Rebellion
Bush Doctrine
Precedent
Joint committee
45. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Majority
Express powers
Cross-cutting requirements
Total and Partial Preemption
46. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Double jeopardy
Vouchers
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Procedural due process
47. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Name recognition
Horse race
Due process clause
Socialism
48. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Administrative discretion
Spoils system
Conservatism
Permissive federalism
49. 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.
Override
Speaker
Annapolis Convention
Poll tax
50. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Monopoly
Dual citizenship
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Opinion of the Court