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1. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Trustee
Direct democracy
Senatorial courtesy
Socioeconomic status (SES)
2. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Presidential election
Divided government
Creative federalism
Discharge petition
3. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Safe seat
Ethnocentrism
Hard power
Literacy test
4. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Closed primary
Direct primary
Protectionism
5. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
State's rights
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Joint committee
Regulatory taking
6. 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.
Attentive public
Soft money
Selective incorporation
Crossover voting
7. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Indictment
Marble cake federalism
Popular sovereignty
Double jeopardy
8. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Decentralists
Pocket veto
Preemption
Racial gerrymandering
9. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Marbury v. Madison
Majority leader
Earmarks
Manifest destiny
10. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Federal mandate
Marbury v. Madison
Retrospective issue of voting
Unemployment
11. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Bill of attainder
Double jeopardy
Fundamentalists
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
12. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Soft money
Gerrymandering
Fighting words
Judicial restraint
13. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Public choice
Social Security
Parliamentary system
Fiscal policy
14. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
Political ideology
Right of expatriation
Special or select committee
Direct orders
15. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Bad tendency test
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Independent expenditure
Constitutional Convention
16. 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.'
Eminent domain
Class action suit
Judicial restraint
Permissive federalism
17. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Crossover sanctions
Medical savings account
Bill of attainder
Interstate compact
18. 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.
Parliamentary system
Inflation
Judicial activism
Inherent powers
19. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Incumbent
Logrolling
amicus curiae brief
Commerce clause
20. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Articles of Confederation
Executive order
Winner-take-all system
Prior restraint
21. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Winner-take-all system
Leadership PAC
Treaty
Electoral college
22. 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.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Theory of deterrence
Community policing
Presidential ticket
23. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Commerce clause
Clear and present danger test
Pocket veto
24. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Attentive public
Independent expenditure
Excise tax
Interest group
25. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Discharge petition
Executive order
Selective exposure
Constitutionalism
26. 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.
Issue advocacy
Mandate
Prospective issue voting
Trustee
27. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Women's suffrage
Name recognition
Immunity
28. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Necessary and proper clause
Medicaid
Redistributive policy
29. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Proportional representation
Gender gap
Gerrymandering
Impeachment
30. An economic system characterized by private property - competitive markets - economic incentives - and limited government involvement in the production - distribution - and pricing of goods and services.
Capitalism
Procedural due process
Democratic consensus
Iron triangle
31. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Incumbent
Proportional representation
Excise tax
Pocket veto
32. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Inherent powers
Suffrage
Attentive public
33. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Antifederalists
Whip
Class action suit
Coattail effect
34. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Prior restraint
Ethnocentrism
Executive order
Public assistance
35. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws
Regulation
Horse race
Natural law
36. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Express powers
Chief of staff
Excise tax
National supremacy
37. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Union shop
Merit system
Preemption
Theocracy
38. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Proportional representation
Clear and present danger test
Manifest opinion
Plea bargain
39. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Commercial speech
Writ of habeas corpus
De facto segregation
Fundamentalists
40. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Ethnocentrism
Party convention
Preferred position doctrine
41. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Turnout
Social Security
Closed shop
Virginia Plan
42. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Parliamentary system
Spoils system
Oversight
Implied powers
43. 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.
Representative democracy
Interest group
Excise tax
President pro tempore
44. 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.
Vouchers
Preemption
Administrative discretion
Unemployment
45. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Affirmative action
Seniority rule
Theory of deterrence
46. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Jim Crow laws
Issue network
Virginia Plan
Line item veto
47. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Marbury v. Madison
Earmarks
Writ of mandamus
Administrative discretion
48. 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
Ethnocentrism
Cross-cutting cleavages
Block grants
Horse race
49. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Commerce clause
Standing committee
Oversight
Plea bargain
50. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Dealignment
Docket
Central clearance
Implementation
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