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1. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Inherent powers
Referendum
Antifederalists
Nonprotected speech
2. The formal process for making regulations.
Rule-making process
Collective bargaining
Department
Crossover voting
3. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Checks and balances
Petit jury
Presidential ticket
Department
4. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Administrative discretion
Linkage institutions
Issue network
Police powers
5. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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6. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Representative democracy
Commerce clause
Closed shop
7. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
Interest group
Political socialization
Dual citizenship
8. 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.
Tariff
Obscenity
Procedural due process
Representative democracy
9. 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.
De jure segregation
Sales tax
Keynesian economics
National party convention
10. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Administrative discretion
Defendant
Mass media
Sales tax
11. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Electoral college
Judicial review
Crossover sanctions
Social capital
12. A provision attached to a bill
Conference committee
Liberalism
Selective exposure
Rider
13. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Hard power
Winner-take-all system
Excise tax
Bicameralism
14. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Procedural due process
Writ of habeas corpus
Closed shop
15. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Statism
Sound bites
Medicare
Minor party
16. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Administrative discretion
Property rights
Separation of powers
Direct primary
17. 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.
Sales tax
Popular consent
Soft money
Liberalism
18. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Soft money
Public choice
Party registration
Linkage institutions
19. 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.
Interest group
Pocket veto
Property rights
Party convention
20. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Hard money
News media
Isolationism
Merit system
21. 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.
Substantive due process
Unemployment
Joint committee
Majority leader
22. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Crossover sanctions
Fundamentalists
Due process
23. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Horse race
Conservatism
Entitlements
Political socialization
24. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Logrolling
Party convention
Laissez-faire economics
Union shop
25. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Collective bargaining
Presidential ticket
Filibuster
Issue network
26. 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
Suffrage
Public opinion
Caucus
27. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Australian ballot
Issue advocacy
Nonprotected speech
Medicaid
28. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Electoral college
Free rider
Conference committee
Bicameralism
29. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Divided government
Midterm election
Independent expenditure
Opinion of the Court
30. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Issue advocacy
Judicial activism
Cabinet
Original jurisdiction
31. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Unemployment
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Commerce clause
Dealignment
32. 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.
Reform party
Socialism
Logrolling
Gross domestic product (GDP)
33. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Referendum
Reinforcing cleavages
Writ of certiorari
Racial gerrymandering
34. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Affirmative action
Closed rule
Public opinion
Petit jury
35. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Veto
Gerrymandering
Representative democracy
36. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
Crossover sanctions
Libel
Direct primary
Seniority rule
37. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Keynesian economics
Issue network
Minor party
38. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Executive order
American dream
Sound bites
Public opinion
39. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
American dream
Spoils system
Representative democracy
Political party
40. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Political party
Presidential election
American dream
Independent expenditures
41. 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)
Regulation
Closed rule
Winner-take-all system
42. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
amicus curiae brief
Turnout
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Nonpartisan election
43. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Independent regulatory commission
Policy agenda
Search warrant
Enumerated powers
44. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Inflation
Executive orders
Single-member district
Proportional representation
45. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Concurring opinion
Commerce clause
Pluralism
Vouchers
46. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Safe seat
Preferred position doctrine
47. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Initiative
Political socialization
Eminent domain
Soft money
48. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Justiciable dispute
Idealism
Congressional-executive agreement
De jure segregation
49. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Constitutionalism
Democratic consensus
Plurality
Prospective issue voting
50. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Natural rights
Preemption
Socialism
Social insurance