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1. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Popular consent
'Our federalism'
National tide
Dealignment
2. A president's claim of broad public support.
Regulatory taking
amicus curiae brief
Nonpartisan election
Mandate
3. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Public opinion
Race
Coattail effect
Delegate
4. 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.
Take care clause
Regulatory taking
Pocket veto
Winner-take-all system
5. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Sedition
Attentive public
Direct primary
Inherent powers
6. 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
Closed primary
Conservatism
Due process clause
7. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Categorical-formula grants
Antifederalists
Public opinion
Senior Executive Service
8. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Retrospective issue of voting
Public assistance
Lobbying
Sales tax
9. The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members - stockholders - or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
Political action committee (PAC)
Issue advocacy
Bundling
Interest group
10. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Community policing
Opinion of the Court
Preemption
Social Security
11. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Party convention
Issue network
Hold
Weapons of mass destruction
12. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Entitlements
Popular sovereignty
Political party
Due process
13. 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.
Oversight
Literacy test
Capitalism
Speaker
14. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Quid pro quo
Antifederalists
Defendant
Writ of habeas corpus
15. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Override
Majority rule
Divided government
Issue network
16. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Search warrant
Liberalism
Police powers
Honeymoon
17. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Deregulation
Libel
Impoundment
Manifest opinion
18. 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.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Bicameralism
Open primary
Stare decisis
19. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Race
Competitive federalism
Majority
Cross-cutting cleavages
20. 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.
Override
Sound bites
General election
Selective incorporation
21. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Antifederalists
Tariff
Bundling
Entitlements
22. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Attentive public
Sales tax
Linkage institutions
Democratic consensus
23. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Socialism
Fighting words
Direct primary
Whip
24. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Environmental impact statement
Electoral college
Socialism
White primary
25. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Soft money
Constitutional Convention
Administrative discretion
Justiciable dispute
26. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
527 organizations
Naturalization
Fiscal federalism
Presidential ticket
27. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Patronage
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Exclusionary rule
Closed shop
28. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Constituents
Preemption
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Restrictive covenant
29. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Ethnocentrism
Gerrymandering
Judicial review
Inherent powers
30. 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
Obscenity
Collective action
Libertarianism
Confederation
31. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Pluralism
Political socialization
Affirmative action
Public assistance
32. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Regulation
Original jurisdiction
Majority rule
Independent expenditures
33. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Literacy test
Popular consent
National party convention
Libertarian party
34. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Creative federalism
Theory of deterrence
Judicial activism
Libertarianism
35. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Attentive public
Court of appeals
Writ of habeas corpus
Majority
36. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Quid pro quo
Delegate
Cabinet
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
37. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Lobbyist
Commerce clause
Concurrent powers
Issue network
38. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Nonpartisan election
General election
Senatorial courtesy
Affirmative action
39. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Discharge petition
Permissive federalism
Executive privilege
Internationalism
40. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Permissive federalism
Public policy
Selected perception
41. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Impeachment
Trust
Cloture
Conservatism
42. 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.
Equal protection clause
Issue advocacy
Vouchers
Restrictive covenant
43. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Single-member district
Theory of deterrence
Decentralists
'Necessary and proper' clause
44. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Patronage
Keynesian economics
Plurality
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
45. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Substantive due process
Civil disobedience
Rider
Independent expenditures
46. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Midterm election
Concurring opinion
Preemption
Vouchers
47. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Constitutional democracy
Selected perception
Necessary and proper clause
Internationalism
48. 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.
Environmental impact statement
Candidate appeal
Green party
Parliamentary system
49. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Dealignment
Issue network
Suffrage
Referendum
50. 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.
Executive privilege
Marble cake federalism
Annapolis Convention
Federal mandate