The first three branches of government in order within the Constitution.
What is the legislature, executive & judiciary?
100
Defined as teams of politicians, activists, and voters whose goal is to win control of government.
What are political parties?
100
A shift in electoral support to the candidate whom the public opinion polls report as the front-runner.
What is the Bandwagon effect?
100
This political scientist states that parties have always been no more than a tool of the politicians, the ambitious office seekers, and the officeholders.
Who is John Aldrich?
100
Currently has 53 representatives in the House (most of any state).
What is California?
200
An agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 stipulating that for purposes of the apportionment of congressional seats, every slave would be counted as three/fifths of a person.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
200
The process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office.
What is nomination?
200
A polling technique in which the questions are designed to shape the respondent’s opinion.
What is push polling?
200
Aldrich states that parties help politicians overcome which principled problem?
What is the collective action problem?
200
This state's GDP is larger than all but eight countries in the world.
What is California?
300
The provision in Article 4, Sec. 1, of the Constitution requiring that each state normally honors the public acts and judicial decisions that take place in another state
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
300
A primary election in which voters can choose on the day of the primary which party to enroll in to select candidates for the general election.
What is an open primary?
300
The failure to identify the true distribution of opinion within a population because of errors such as ambiguous or poorly worded questions.
What is measurement error?
300
An endogenous institution (according to Aldrich).
What are Parties? [meaning they were created by political actors]
300
The Manhattan Project was the code name for what US military project?
What is the atomic bomb?
400
In 1777, the Continental Congress adopted this document, the US’s first Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
The federalist and this other party are considered the first party system in the US.
What are the Democratic Republicans?
400
A polling error that arises on account of the small size of the sample.
What is sample error?
400
The principle that accounts for politicians creating and using parties to achieve a desired end.
What is the rationality principle?
400
Who is the only President to have never been elected as Vice President or President?
Who is Gerald Ford?
500
A rebellion against the Massachusetts government lead by a former Army captain. Some believe the constitutional convention would have never taken place if it wasn’t for this event.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a local party organization that controlled local politics through patronage and the nomination process.
What is a party machine?
500
A polling error in which the sample is not representative of the population being studied, so that some opinions are over- or under-represented.
What is selection bias?
500
Aldrich states that parties have also (beyond politicians) been shaped by this factor.
What is the historical & technological setting (Computers, TV, air travel make parties less necessary for organizing a campaign).
500
e pluribus unum
What is a latin phrase often on US coinage meaning "Out of many, one?”