Designation as an official candidate of a political party
What is Nomination?
100
Election Coverage by the mass media that focuses on which candidate is ahead rather than on national issues.
What is horse race journalism?
100
The percentage of eligible citizens who actually vote in a given election.
What is voter turnout?
100
The first clause in the First Amendment, which forbids government establishment of religion
What is establishment clause?
100
A voter's sense of psychological attachment to a party.
What is party identification?
200
A closed meeting of the members of a political party to decide questions of policy and the selection of candidates for office.
What is caucus?
200
Keeping track of government programs; usually done by interest groups.
What is program monitoring?
200
In voting, candidates from different parties for different offices?
What is split ticket? So what is straight ticket?
200
The second clause in the First Amendment, which prevents the government from interfering with the exercise of religion.
What is free-exercise clause?
200
Primary elections in which voters must declare their party affiliation before they are given the primary ballot containing that party's potential nominees.
What is closed primaries? Then what are open primaries?
300
The statement of policies of a national political party.
What is party platforms?
300
An independent federal agency that regulates interstate and international communication by radio, TV, telephone, telegraph, cable, and satellite.
What is Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
300
A preliminary election run by the state government, in which the voters choose each party's candidates for the general election.
What is direct primary?
300
A means by which the Supreme Court has distinguished between speech as the advocacy of ideas, which is protected by the First Amendment, and speech as incitement, which is not protected.
What is clear and present danger test?
300
Speech that is not protected by the First Amendment because it inflict injury or tends to incite an immediate disturbance of the peace.
What is fighting words?
400
An organized group of individuals that seeks to influence public policy.
What is interest groups?
400
A strategy whereby a president seeks to influence policy elites and media coverage by appealing directly to the American people.
What is "Going Public"?
400
States practice of moving delegate selection primaries and caucuses earlier in the calendar year to gain media and candidate attention.
What is front-loading?
400
The case where the Court struck down a state law calling for daily Bible reading and recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Pennsylvania's public schools
What is Engel v Vitale?
400
The case where the Court decided that school systems must desegregate "with all deliberate speed" and assigned the task of supervising desegregation to the lower federal courts.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
500
An organization that pools campaign contributions from group members and donates those funds to candidates for political office.
What is political action committee (PAC)?
500
Lobbying organization built around policy concerns unrelated to members' vocational interests.
What is citizen group?
500
A bipartisan federal agency of six members that oversees the financing of national election campaigns.
What is Federal Election Commission (FEC)?
500
A standard used by the Supreme Court by deciding whether a law or policy is to be adjudged constitutional. To pass this test, the law or policy must be justified by a "compelling governmental interest," must be narrowly tailored, and must be the least restrictive means for achieving that interest.
What is strict scrutiny?
500
The system by which legislative seats are awarded to a party in proportion to the vote that party wins in an election.