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1. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Veto
Inherent powers
Reapportionment
Rule
2. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Redistributive policy
Speaker
Plea bargain
Direct democracy
3. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Writ of habeas corpus
Connecticut Compromise
Regulation
Full faith and credit clause
4. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Bicameralism
Value-added tax (VAT)
Political socialization
Sales tax
5. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Reinforcing cleavages
Three-fifths compromise
Federalists
Open primary
6. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Australian ballot
Implementation
Community policing
Decentralists
7. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Redistributive policy
Faction
Rider
Senior Executive Service
8. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Political socialization
Soft money
9. 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
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Oversight
Progressive tax
Medical savings account
10. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Gerrymandering
Bicameralism
Selected perception
Majority rule
11. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Multilateralism
Natural rights
Theocracy
Turnout
12. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Theocracy
Poll tax
Attentive public
Value-added tax (VAT)
13. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Prospective issue voting
Class action suit
Leadership PAC
Docket
14. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Popular consent
Theocracy
Clear and present danger test
Direct primary
15. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Precedent
Antitrust legislation
Confederation
Pocket veto
16. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Total and Partial Preemption
Exclusionary rule
Issue advocacy
Medical savings account
17. 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.
Trustee
Public choice
amicus curiae brief
Constitutional democracy
18. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Discharge petition
Caucus
Monopoly
Minority leader
19. 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.
Democracy
Writ of habeas corpus
Libertarianism
Incumbent
20. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Unilateralism
Writ of certiorari
Earmarks
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
21. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Immunity
Party identification
Closed rule
Redistricting
22. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Interstate compact
Safe seat
Collective bargaining
Monopoly
23. The clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Racial gerrymandering
Commerce clause
Bad tendency test
Impoundment
24. 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)
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Popular sovereignty
Civil law
25. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Judicial restraint
Social insurance
National debt
Executive orders
26. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Nonprotected speech
Closed shop
Interstate compact
Midterm election
27. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Docket
Cloture
Australian ballot
Executive Office of the President
28. 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.
Linkage institutions
Constitutional democracy
Police powers
Bipartisanship
29. 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.'
Permissive federalism
Quid pro quo
Whip
De jure segregation
30. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Checks and balances
Idealism
Commerce clause
Keynesian economics
31. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
National party convention
Theocracy
Racial gerrymandering
Medicare
32. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Mandate
Executive Office of the President
Special or select committee
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
33. 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.
Political predisposition
Social Security
Concurring opinion
Vouchers
34. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Stare decisis
Trustee
Veto
Filibuster
35. 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
Government corporation
Eminent domain
Monopoly
Independent expenditures
36. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Federalists
Pocket veto
Tax expenditure
Open shop
37. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Extradition
Federal mandate
Race
38. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Race
Implementation
White primary
Bipartisanship
39. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Concurring opinion
Executive agreement
Senatorial courtesy
Offshoring
40. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Mandate
Federal Register
Medicaid
Entitlement programs
41. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Impoundment
Bicameralism
Soft money
Direct orders
42. 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
Antitrust legislation
Block grants
Reapportionment
Speaker
43. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Nonpartisan election
Movement
Original jurisdiction
44. 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.
General election
Sound bites
Federalists
Realism
45. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Impoundment
Constitutional Convention
Open shop
Unitary system
46. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Initiative
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Unfunded mandates
Petit jury
47. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Court of appeals
Restrictive covenant
Bicameralism
Override
48. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Protectionism
Double jeopardy
Lobbying
Public choice
49. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Unilateralism
Commerce clause
Entitlements
Department
50. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Court of appeals
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Fiscal federalism
Hard money