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1. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Interstate compact
Issue network
Conservatism
Sales tax
2. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Extradition
Unfunded mandates
Federalists
National debt
3. 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
Sales tax
Initiative
General election
Independent expenditure
4. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Impeachment
Prospective issue voting
Indexing
Special or select committee
5. 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.
Police powers
Checks and balances
Executive agreement
Government corporation
6. 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.
Line item veto
Recall
Docket
Unemployment
7. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Tariff
Judicial review
Laissez-faire economics
Obscenity
8. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Tax expenditure
Initiative
Due process
National supremacy
9. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Rally point
Plurality
National Intelligence Director
10. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Parliamentary system
State's rights
Implementation
Referendum
11. 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.
Bicameralism
Cooperative federalism
Senatorial courtesy
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
12. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Keynesian economics
Political action committee (PAC)
Implementation
Reinforcing cleavages
13. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Linkage institutions
Natural law
Open shop
Protectionism
14. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Medical savings account
Unilateralism
Independent expenditures
De facto segregation
15. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Natural rights
Redistributive policy
Representative democracy
Antifederalists
16. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
President pro tempore
Monopoly
Unitary system
Cabinet
17. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Central clearance
Turnout
Joint committee
Public defender system
18. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Seniority rule
Reinforcing cleavages
Administrative discretion
19. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Direct primary
Issue network
Fiscal policy
Independent expenditure
20. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Crossover sanctions
Fundamentalists
Redistributive policy
Speaker
21. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Constitutionalism
Realism
Closed shop
Winner-take-all system
22. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Enumerated powers
Australian ballot
Constitutional Convention
Means-tested entitlements
23. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Cross-cutting requirements
Faction
Honeymoon
Clear and present danger test
24. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Proportional representation
Central clearance
Extradition
Property rights
25. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Indictment
Green party
Concurrent powers
Dual citizenship
26. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Party identification
Standing committee
Open primary
Realism
27. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Excise tax
The Federalist
Divided government
Categorical-formula grants
28. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Executive order
Confederation
Decentralists
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
29. 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.
Seniority rule
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Impoundment
Override
30. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Natural law
Libertarian party
Independent expenditures
Tax expenditure
31. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Property rights
Direct democracy
'Our federalism'
Sound bites
32. 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.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Due process
Soft money
Random sample
33. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Trade deficit
Presidential ticket
Senatorial courtesy
Conservatism
34. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
The Federalist
Tariff
Party identification
Police powers
35. 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)
Theocracy
Labor injunction
Economic sanctions
36. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Entitlements
Department
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Normal trade relations
37. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Prior restraint
Confederation
Voter registration
Writ of certiorari
38. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Court of appeals
Dealignment
Coattail effect
Single-member district
39. 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.
Cloture
amicus curiae brief
Federal Register
National party convention
40. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Leadership PAC
Means-tested entitlements
Shays's Rebellion
Divided government
41. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Necessary and proper clause
527 organizations
Tariff
State's rights
42. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Concurrent powers
Pluralism
Constitutional democracy
Class action suit
43. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Australian ballot
Conference committee
Popular sovereignty
44. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Executive Office of the President
Implementation
Writ of certiorari
Photo ops
45. 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
Virginia Plan
Environmental impact statement
Multilateralism
Crossover sanctions
46. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Entitlement programs
Political culture
Congressional-executive agreement
47. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Interest group
Conservatism
Cooperative federalism
Caucus
48. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Express powers
Antitrust legislation
Regulation
The Federalist
49. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Procedural due process
Joint committee
Enumerated powers
Full faith and credit clause
50. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Excise tax
Economic sanctions
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Libertarian party
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