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1. 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.
Justiciable dispute
Horse race
Libertarian party
Social Security
2. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Cooperative federalism
Single-member district
Filibuster
Cross-cutting requirements
3. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Public policy
Party identification
Proportional representation
Impoundment
4. 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.
Issue advocacy
Green party
Open shop
Tariff
5. 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
Party convention
Direct orders
Constitutionalism
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
6. The head of the White House staff.
Eminent domain
Implementation
Chief of staff
Cross-cutting cleavages
7. 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
Libel
Direct orders
Preemption
Block grants
8. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Commercial speech
Writ of certiorari
Docket
Free exercise clause
9. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Executive order
Open primary
Candidate appeal
Hard power
10. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Project grants
Opinion of the Court
Indictment
Constitutional democracy
11. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Bureaucracy
Party identification
Community policing
Bipartisanship
12. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Horse race
Federalists
Candidate appeal
Bicameralism
13. The current holder of the elected office.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Independent regulatory commission
Incumbent
Unilateralism
14. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Executive orders
Libertarianism
Bundling
Political socialization
15. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Closed shop
New Jersey Plan
Administrative discretion
16. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Judicial activism
Racial gerrymandering
Affirmative action
Rider
17. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Majority
Trust
Primary election
Procedural due process
18. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Open primary
State of the Union Address
Proportional representation
Conservatism
19. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Devolution revolution
Writ of habeas corpus
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Hard money
20. 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.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Annapolis Convention
Interstate compact
Political socialization
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.
Necessary and proper clause
Tariff
Bad tendency test
Photo ops
22. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Union shop
Majority rule
Incumbent
Retrospective issue of voting
23. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Inflation
Writ of certiorari
Monetary policy
Regulation
24. 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.
Cabinet
Extradition
Oversight
Public defender system
25. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Constitutionalism
Oversight
Issue network
Procedural due process
26. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Immunity
Candidate appeal
Vouchers
Party registration
27. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Grand jury
Constitutional democracy
Hard money
Bureaucracy
28. 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.
Implied powers
Connecticut Compromise
Isolationism
Plea bargain
29. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Progressive tax
Collective bargaining
Hard money
Criminal law
30. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Natural law
Bad tendency test
Iron triangle
Random sample
31. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Inherent powers
Direct primary
Caucus
32. 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.
Government corporation
Dissenting opinion
Independent regulatory commission
Interest group
33. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regulation
Hatch Act
Regressive tax
Writ of mandamus
34. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Environmental impact statement
Government corporation
Writ of habeas corpus
Multilateralism
35. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Popular consent
Party identification
Monetarism
Public assistance
36. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Minor party
Antitrust legislation
Libel
Defendant
37. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Devolution revolution
Merit system
Three-fifths compromise
Means-tested entitlements
38. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Senatorial courtesy
Voter registration
Interested money
Crossover voting
39. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Class action suit
Party registration
Bundling
Connecticut Compromise
40. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Tax expenditure
Proportional representation
Conservatism
Connecticut Compromise
41. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Issue advocacy
Reinforcing cleavages
Political party
Excise tax
42. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Override
Green party
Uncontrollable spending
Bundling
43. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Impeachment
Political socialization
Monetary policy
Manifest opinion
44. Media that emphasize the news.
Natural rights
News media
Direct democracy
Commerce clause
45. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Whip
Policy agenda
Cooperative federalism
Realism
46. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Sound bites
Hold
Photo ops
Representative democracy
47. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Restrictive covenant
Public choice
Fighting words
Original jurisdiction
48. 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.
Collective bargaining
Hard power
National Intelligence Director
National party convention
49. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Public opinion
Closed primary
Literacy test
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
50. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Coattail effect
Excise tax
Double jeopardy
Labor injunction