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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Separation of powers
Indexing
Dual citizenship
Union shop
2. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Majority rule
Attentive public
Offshoring
3. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Conservatism
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Senior Executive Service
Naturalization
4. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Commerce clause
Party identification
Joint committee
Weapons of mass destruction
5. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Permissive federalism
Demographics
Movement
Single-member district
6. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Public defender system
Poll tax
Implied powers
Soft money
7. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Political predisposition
Double jeopardy
Majority rule
Three-fifths compromise
8. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Block grants
Petit jury
Conference committee
Attentive public
9. 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.
Community policing
Opinion of the Court
Literacy test
Reapportionment
10. 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.'
Social insurance
Class action suit
Political culture
Permissive federalism
11. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Confederation
Bureaucracy
Soft money
Crossover voting
12. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Independent regulatory commission
Constitutional Convention
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
13. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Impoundment
Party registration
National debt
Federalism
14. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
National party convention
Gender gap
Literacy test
Collective action
15. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Project grants
Necessary and proper clause
Hard money
Centralists
16. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Multilateralism
Reapportionment
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Bureaucracy
17. 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.
Green party
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Interest group
Tariff
18. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Justiciable dispute
Candidate appeal
Stare decisis
Australian ballot
19. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Court of appeals
Articles of Confederation
Earmarks
20. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
National party convention
Lobbying
Collective action
Linkage institutions
21. 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.
Tariff
Appellate jurisdiction
'Necessary and proper' clause
Redistributive policy
22. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Ex post facto law
Party convention
Policy agenda
Interested money
23. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Monopoly
Executive privilege
Ex post facto law
Photo ops
24. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Political socialization
Political ideology
Original jurisdiction
Democracy
25. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Administrative discretion
Safe seat
Direct democracy
Commercial speech
26. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Offshoring
De jure segregation
Deficit
Conference committee
27. 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
Social Security
Bill of attainder
Competitive federalism
28. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Political socialization
Cross-cutting requirements
Collective action
Federal Reserve System
29. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Tariff
Bill of attainder
Progressive tax
Political predisposition
30. The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members - stockholders - or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
Antitrust legislation
Senior Executive Service
Political action committee (PAC)
Environmental impact statement
31. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Public choice
Majority rule
Impoundment
Incumbent
32. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Patronage
White primary
Statism
Entitlement programs
33. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Social capital
Racial gerrymandering
Due process
Discharge petition
34. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Due process
Lobbying
Executive privilege
Selective incorporation
35. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Proportional representation
Recall
Popular consent
Gerrymandering
36. The head of the White House staff.
Trust
Executive order
News media
Chief of staff
37. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Independent regulatory commission
Political ideology
Mandate
Enumerated powers
38. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Preferred position doctrine
Retrospective issue of voting
Centralists
Sales tax
39. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Safe seat
Impeachment
Political socialization
Issue network
40. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Joint committee
Regulatory taking
Cross-cutting cleavages
Soft power
41. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Grand jury
Federal mandate
Economic sanctions
Public policy
42. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Photo ops
Necessary and proper clause
Bad tendency test
Take care clause
43. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Police powers
Sedition
Community policing
Theory of deterrence
44. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Dual citizenship
Oversight
Gender gap
Distributive policy
45. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Faction
Closed shop
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Trust
46. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Random sample
Inherent powers
Virginia Plan
47. The clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Commerce clause
Political socialization
Antifederalists
Federal mandate
48. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Issue advocacy
Ethnocentrism
Excise tax
Majority rule
49. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Independent regulatory commission
Procedural due process
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Primary election
50. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Justiciable dispute
Presidential election
Oversight