Congress
Interest Groups
Federalism
Political Parties
Bureaucracy
100
The free use of the mail system to communicate with constituents, and machines that duplicate a member's signature in real ink.
What is franking privileges?
100
An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals.
What is interest group?
100
A way of organizing a nation so that two levels of govt have formal authority over the same land and people. It is a system of shared power between units of govt.
What is federalism?
100
According to Anthony Downs, a "team of men and women seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in a duly constituted election."
What is political party?
100
According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality.
What is bureaucracy?
200
Representing constituents by mirroring their personal, politically relevant characteristics.
What is descriptive representation?
200
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies.
What is pluralist theory?
200
Requires states to do certain things without providing any money.
What is unfunded mandate?
200
Electoral contenders other than the two major parties.
What is third parties?
200
A hiring and promotion system based on political reasons rather than on merit or competence.
What is patronage?
300
The mighty list of federal projects, grants, and contracts available to cities, businesses, colleges, and institutions available in a congressional district.
What is pork barrel?
300
Advanced by Mancur Olson, a principle stating that "the larger the group, the further it will fall short of providing an optimal amount of a collective good.
What is Olson's la of large group?
300
The Supreme Court case that gave the federal government extensive power through the commerce clause.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
300
A party building their platform on the issue of saving the environment.
What is Green Party?
300
Created the civil service.
What is Pendleton Civil Service Act?
400
Adopting both trustee and instructed delegate roles as they strive to be both representatives and policymakers.
What is politicos?
400
Political funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms.
What is political action committees (PACs)?
400
Powers that are held by both the states and the federal government.
What is concurrent powers?
400
The people within a party who organize and set up everything thing that needs to get done for the party.
What is organizational party?
400
Is in charge of hiring for most federal agencies.
What is Office of Personal Management (OPM)?
500
The Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights was intended to protect individuals against infringement of their rights by federal government and that the guarantees were not binding upon state governments.
What is Barron v. Baltimore (1833)?
500
A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs.
What is right-to-work law?
500
The Supreme Court case that ruled that the protections of the 1st Amendment apply against actions by state governments.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
500
Also called the States' Rights Democrat, they broke away from the Democratic Party in 1948 because they opposed the civil rights programs of the Democratic Party and the candidacy of Harry S. Truman. Recognized as a splinter party and consisted of only southern democrats in states such as Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and parts of Tennessee. Their party slogan was "Segregation Forever!"
What is Dixiecrats?
500
The Supreme Court noted that important First Amendment interests in the protection of free speech must be taken into consideration in patronage firings.
What is Elrod v. Burns (1976)?
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