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1. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Unemployment
Decentralists
Standing committee
Senatorial courtesy
2. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Single-member district
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Reform party
Demographics
3. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Closed shop
Dissenting opinion
Interest group
4. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Class action suit
Reform party
Bicameralism
Bill of attainder
5. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Revolving door
Sedition
Conservatism
Shays's Rebellion
6. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Stare decisis
Fiscal federalism
Seniority rule
Quid pro quo
7. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Pocket veto
Shays's Rebellion
Union shop
Search warrant
8. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Sedition
Socialism
Referendum
Quid pro quo
9. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Literacy test
Parliamentary system
Bureaucracy
Constitutionalism
10. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Writ of certiorari
Civil disobedience
Indictment
Internationalism
11. 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.
Selective incorporation
Regulatory taking
Racial profiling
Administrative discretion
12. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Crossover voting
Adversary system
Electoral college
Liberalism
13. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Deregulation
Hatch Act
Full faith and credit clause
14. 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.
Majority leader
Realigning election
Literacy test
Majority-minority district
15. The formal process for making regulations.
Adversary system
Deficit
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Rule-making process
16. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Redistributive policy
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Safe seat
Liberalism
17. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Medicaid
Safe seat
Spoils system
Proportional representation
18. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Oversight
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Bicameralism
Amicus curiae brief
19. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Class action suit
Pocket veto
Attentive public
Green party
20. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Rule
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Cross-cutting requirements
Adversary system
21. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Procedural due process
Minority leader
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Joint committee
22. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Presidential ticket
Virginia Plan
Public defender system
National party convention
23. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Clear and present danger test
Progressive tax
Protectionism
National debt
24. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Demographics
Natural law
Public opinion
Public choice
25. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Medical savings account
Treaty
Community policing
Safe seat
26. The right to vote.
National party convention
Direct primary
Suffrage
Linkage institutions
27. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Implied powers
Entitlements
Monetarism
Public choice
28. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Regulation
Block grants
Inflation
Gross domestic product (GDP)
29. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
Interested money
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
'Our federalism'
30. 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.
Keynesian economics
Democracy
Attentive public
Unemployment
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.
Sedition
Right of expatriation
Inflation
Competitive federalism
32. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Precedent
Executive orders
Open primary
Procedural due process
33. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Gerrymandering
Interest group
Ex post facto law
Literacy test
34. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Winner-take-all system
Establishment clause
Lobbying
Interest group
35. 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.
Federalism
Direct primary
Redistricting
Three-fifths compromise
36. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Isolationism
Keynesian economics
Incumbent
Necessary and proper clause
37. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Popular consent
Isolationism
Seniority rule
Sales tax
38. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Judicial activism
Executive privilege
Extradition
Executive Office of the President
39. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Pocket veto
Appellate jurisdiction
State's rights
Rally point
40. The right of women to vote.
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41. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Public policy
Court of appeals
Candidate appeal
National tide
42. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Political socialization
Enumerated powers
Crossover voting
Social insurance
43. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Australian ballot
Hatch Act
Libertarian party
44. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Trustee
Implied powers
Writ of certiorari
Executive Office of the President
45. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Concurring opinion
Unitary system
Public choice
Caucus
46. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Iron triangle
Monopoly
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Union shop
47. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Midterm election
Entitlements
Interest group
Bad tendency test
48. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Amicus curiae brief
Constitutional Convention
Parliamentary system
Attentive public
49. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Electoral college
Connecticut Compromise
Representative democracy
'Our federalism'
50. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Economic sanctions
Amicus curiae brief
Jim Crow laws
Manifest destiny