Congress
The number of members in the Senate
What is 100?
A person currently serving in an elected office.
What is an incumbent?
Where representatives are elected from
What are congressional districts?
How a bill can still become a law if the President vetoes it.
What is 2/3 of Congress votes to override the veto?
How the public evaluates their own congressional leaders
The number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
Physical characteristics/looking like those elected to office.
What is descriptive representation?
What are women?
This institution has the power to approve treaties
What is the Senate?
How the public evaluates Congress overall.
What is negatively (or poorly)?
The length of a senator's term in office
What is 6 years?
The process/instance of delaying or preventing a bill from being voted on.
What is a filibuster?
Three types of engagement that leads to change
What are 1) running for office, 2) advocacy or activism, and 3) community service?
The president of the Senate
How the public feels about the institution/institutional arrangment of Congress (in the abstract)
What is positively/they like it?
The length of a House of Representative's term in office
What is 2 years?
Drawing district lines to benefit one political party.
What is gerrymandering?
Senators for Oklahoma
Tries the president in an impeachment trial.
What is the Senate?
This institution's lowest approval rate is around 32%.
What is the mass media?
A legislature divided into two separate houses or chambers.
What is a bicameral legislature?
In college, men's political ambition grows, while women's fades.
What is the Collegiate Confidence Gap?
When your political interests/innate interests are represented by an elected official.
What is substantive representation?
The basic problems of legislative organization (there are 6).
1) The need for information, 2) coordinating problems, 3) resolving conflicts, 4) collective action, 5) transaction costs, 6) time pressures
This institution tends to have the highest levels of public approval
What is the Supreme Court? (Bonus points: explain why).