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1. 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
Precedent
Trust
Cooperative federalism
2. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Laissez-faire economics
Offshoring
Popular consent
3. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Earmarks
Retrospective issue of voting
Procedural due process
Movement
4. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Prospective issue voting
Racial profiling
Race
Executive privilege
5. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Chief of staff
Social Security
Department
Senatorial courtesy
6. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Treaty
Vouchers
Majority rule
Lobbying
7. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Hard power
Bipartisanship
Nonpartisan election
Project grants
8. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Theocracy
Union shop
Federal Reserve System
9. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Political ideology
Rule
Civil law
Manifest destiny
10. 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)
Concurring opinion
Marble cake federalism
Delegate
11. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Cooperative federalism
Free exercise clause
National party convention
Checks and balances
12. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
National party convention
Special or select committee
Clear and present danger test
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
13. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Trade deficit
Lobbyist
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
14. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Executive Office of the President
Jim Crow laws
Separation of powers
Protectionism
15. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
General election
Public assistance
Due process clause
Value-added tax (VAT)
16. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Political ideology
Amicus curiae brief
Turnout
Establishment clause
17. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Three-fifths compromise
Patronage
Social insurance
Divided government
18. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Lobbying
Interest group
Bureaucracy
Entitlement programs
19. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Due process clause
Presidential election
President pro tempore
Confederation
20. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Presidential ticket
Commerce clause
Free exercise clause
Trustee
21. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Substantive due process
American dream
Political ideology
22. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Laissez-faire economics
Means-tested entitlements
Fiscal policy
Conference committee
23. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Issue advocacy
Open primary
Public assistance
Independent expenditures
24. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Australian ballot
Safe seat
Executive agreement
Full faith and credit clause
25. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Ethnicity
Bush Doctrine
Medicaid
Theory of deterrence
26. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Fundamentalists
Federal mandate
Regulatory taking
27. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Rider
Issue network
Executive order
De jure segregation
28. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Demographics
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Senatorial courtesy
Free rider
29. 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
Coattail effect
Judicial review
Selective incorporation
Grand jury
30. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Independent expenditures
Crossover voting
Reapportionment
Referendum
31. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Attentive public
Restrictive covenant
Bureaucrat
Cooperative federalism
32. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Democracy
Judicial review
Democratic consensus
'Necessary and proper' clause
33. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Labor injunction
Line item veto
Naturalization
Antifederalists
34. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Progressive tax
Public policy
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Retrospective issue of voting
35. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Political socialization
Categorical-formula grants
Joint committee
Hold
36. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Writ of habeas corpus
Democratic consensus
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
37. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
Immunity
Clear and present danger test
Independent expenditures
Judicial activism
38. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Implementation
Party identification
Direct primary
Vouchers
39. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
527 organizations
Single-member district
De facto segregation
Political socialization
40. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Fundamentalists
Selective exposure
Offshoring
Policy agenda
41. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Commerce clause
Presidential election
Line item veto
Hard money
42. 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).
Poll tax
Issue network
Closed shop
Separation of powers
43. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Indexing
Deficit
Commerce clause
Property rights
44. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
National supremacy
Writ of habeas corpus
Civil law
Treaty
45. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Entitlements
Linkage institutions
Free exercise clause
Senatorial courtesy
46. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Natural rights
Crossover sanctions
Constitutional democracy
Confederation
47. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Hold
Uncontrollable spending
Political culture
Federal Reserve System
48. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Civil law
Precedent
Majority-minority district
Federalists
49. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Medical savings account
Caucus
Sedition
Hatch Act
50. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Cross-cutting cleavages
National debt
Permissive federalism
Quid pro quo