The division of political authority between two sovereign governments, national and the states.
What is federalism?
100
A collection of beliefs and values that a society has about the justification and operation of a country’s government.
What is political culture?
100
The party that generally spends the most on campaigns.
What are Republicans?
100
Formally and non-formally organized collection of individuals who share a social identity.
What is Bishin’s definition of a group?
100
Frymer finds this issue has dominated the Congressional Black Caucus’ (CBC) legislative agenda since its formation in 1971.
What is spending on domestic services?
200
The right to equal protection under the law for every person.
What are civil rights?
200
A philosophy that empowers individuals, not kings, governments, or religious authorities.
What is liberalism?
200
Campaign spending affects the vote choice of ____________ most.
What are independents?
200
Process whereby candidates seek to activate beneficial/useful group identities that disadvantage their opponents.
What is dynamic positioning?
200
The decade that Frymer argues the CBC was largely reactive to Republicans’ threats to cut social welfare and roll back civil rights legislation.
What is the 1980s?
300
Freedoms that protect the individual from government.
What are civil liberties?
300
Hostility that people have towards concentrations of power and power holders.
What is populism?
300
When voters weigh the election year economic outcomes more heavily than the outcomes over the entire four year term.
What is voter myopia?
300
Intense minorities can exploit the apathy and ignorance of the average citizen (the majority) to pursue policy that is contrary to the majority’s interests.
What is tyranny of the minority?
300
The 1986 Supreme Court decision that found congressional districts could be drawn to allow for majority-minority districts.
What is Thornburg v. Gingles?
400
The people ==> policy outcomes
What is direct (populistic) democracy?
400
Attitudes that are rooted in a common political culture, but that are based the individual’s own unique circumstances and experience in life.
What is public opinion?
400
This percent of the Republican presidential votes can be attributed to voter myopia.
What is 3.5 percent?
400
The hypothesis that responsiveness increases with the visibility of an issue (as an issue gains more news coverage).
What is the issue visibility thesis?
400
During the summer of 1969, this event is often cited as the catalyst for gay rights coming to the national political scene.
What were the Stonewall Inn Riots?
500
Emphasizes the obligation that citizens have to act virtuously in pursuit of the common good.
What is civic republicanism?
500
Process of learning views through interaction with various forces in the environment.
What is socialization?
500
In addition to voter myopia, and campaign spending, this too correlates with vote gains for Republican presidential candidates.
What is the election year high income growth rate?
500
Groups of individuals who have high levels of knowledge about and interest in a particular issue.
What are issue publics?
500
An estimated 13% of African American men cannot vote due to these laws.