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1. 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
Devolution revolution
Earmarks
Block grants
Three-fifths compromise
2. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Monopoly
Statism
National party convention
Preferred position doctrine
3. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Antifederalists
Open rule
Civil law
Attentive public
4. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Bundling
Party registration
Redistricting
Procedural due process
5. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Keynesian economics
Unemployment
Revolving door
Interested money
6. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Selective incorporation
Cloture
Voter registration
Primary election
7. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Marble cake federalism
Immunity
Winner-take-all system
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
8. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Independent expenditures
Theory of deterrence
Pocket veto
Sedition
9. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Marble cake federalism
Social capital
General election
Soft power
10. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Public choice
Issue advocacy
New Jersey Plan
National supremacy
11. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Fiscal policy
De jure segregation
Free rider
Mandate
12. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Offshoring
De jure segregation
Majority
Full faith and credit clause
13. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Constitutionalism
Party caucus
Articles of Confederation
Caucus
14. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Criminal law
Due process
Judicial review
Open primary
15. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Public opinion
Checks and balances
Special or select committee
Coattail effect
16. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Trade deficit
Closed shop
Procedural due process
State of the Union Address
17. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Patronage
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
President pro tempore
Trustee
18. 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
Judicial restraint
Line item veto
Impoundment
19. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Bureaucracy
Take care clause
Constituents
Majority rule
20. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Obscenity
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Monopoly
Political predisposition
21. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Keynesian economics
Interested money
Bicameralism
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
22. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Attentive public
Collective bargaining
Whip
Environmental impact statement
23. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Original jurisdiction
Stare decisis
De jure segregation
Gerrymandering
24. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Centralists
Civil law
Adversary system
State's rights
25. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Creative federalism
Dual citizenship
Federal mandate
Cloture
26. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Mandate
Delegate
Executive order
Medicaid
27. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Social insurance
Social Security
Independent expenditures
Interstate compact
28. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Recall
Entitlement programs
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Constituents
29. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Turnout
Crossover sanctions
Political culture
Deficit
30. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Ethnicity
Dissenting opinion
Gerrymandering
American dream
31. The head of the White House staff.
Conference committee
Mass media
Turnout
Chief of staff
32. 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.
Soft money
Inherent powers
Community policing
Pocket veto
33. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Parliamentary system
Fiscal federalism
Jim Crow laws
34. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Standing committee
Protectionism
Mass media
Lobbyist
35. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
American dream
Cross-cutting cleavages
Union shop
Divided government
36. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Candidate appeal
Conference committee
Defendant
Cabinet
37. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
National Intelligence Director
Executive orders
Obscenity
Regressive tax
38. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Revolving door
Cycle of decreasing influence
Categorical-formula grants
Merit system
39. A career government employee.
Presidential election
Confederation
Bureaucrat
Restrictive covenant
40. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.
Minor party
Theory of deterrence
Issue advocacy
Central clearance
41. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Direct democracy
Bush Doctrine
Due process clause
Judicial review
42. 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
Reinforcing cleavages
Collective action
Attentive public
State of the Union Address
43. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Selected perception
Keynesian economics
Bundling
Representative democracy
44. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Issue network
Implied powers
Preemption
Excise tax
45. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Inflation
Name recognition
Hard power
Linkage institutions
46. 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
White primary
Due process
Midterm election
47. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
President pro tempore
Movement
Original jurisdiction
Candidate appeal
48. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Sedition
Independent expenditure
Issue network
49. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Selected perception
Oversight
Movement
Substantive due process
50. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Pocket veto
Entitlement programs
Soft money
Party identification