A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote.
What is a poll tax?
100
A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office.
What is a political party?
100
This process helps candidates target their messages.
What is polling?
100
An organization of people sharing a common interest or goal that seeks to influence public policy.
What is an interest group?
200
This is a method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected.
What is a random sample?
200
A government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public.
What is an Australian ballot?
200
Over time the federal government has accumulated more and more of this, which is a measure of their legitimacy.
What is political authority?
200
The person already holding an elective office.
What is an incumbent?
200
These are the material and social motivations people have for joining an interest group.
What are material and solidary incentives?
300
These two words help identify general political leanings in the United States.
What are liberal and conservative?
300
The difference in these two statistics complicates measuring participation in different countries.
What are voting-age population and registered voters?
300
Fearing the tyranny of the majority, the founders viewed parties as little more than these.
What are factions?
300
Four groups of people - media consultants, direct mail firms, polling firms, and political technology firms - perform these.
What are campaign tasks?
300
The feminist and environmental movements are examples of this.
What is a social movement?
400
We have very little political information about this ethnic group, despite the fact that they are growing rapidly.
Who are Latinos?
400
This is the single best indicator of a high likelihood of voting.
What is schooling (or education)?
400
These are the three functions in which political parties operate.
What are labels, organizations, and sets of leaders?
400
Tomz and Van Houweling (2008) found that this is the most important factor when voters decide who the best candidate is.
What is proximity?
400
This is the landmark decision that opened the flood gates for corporate funding of elections.
What is Citizens United v. FEC (2010)?
500
Rather than splitting people into the traditional two categories, political scientists have found that there are nine of these.
What are typologies?
500
Unless something drastic happens in the next 7 years, this group will make up about a quarter of the population but only account for about 12.5% of the vote.
What is the young (18 to 29) voting eligible population?
500
The emergence of this form of party system was not foreseen by the founders, but dominates our current political landscape.
What is the two-party system?
500
These two forms of making a political decision depend on if you are looking forward or backward.
What are prospective and retrospective voting?
500
Otherwise known as the McCain-Feingold Act.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002)?