Political Culture Vocab
Groups, environments, or experiences that teach and expose people to political ideas and values.
What are agents of socialization?
In scientific polls, the process of selecting a small group to represent the most important characteristics of an entire population
What is sampling?
Decision based on what voter perceives to be his or her individual best interest.
What is rational choice voting?
The grounds for considering the regulation of campaign fundraising as a constitutional issue.
What is the First Amendment?
The Court identifies the limitation of expression and speech as the issue in the case, each of which are protected by the First Amendment. Note that the Citizens United case addressed a similar topic.
Wrote the letters of Birmingham Jail.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
An ideology that believes that a large and powerful government poses a threat to citizens' freedom and emphasizes preserving tradition and family to support society.
What is Conservatism?
A structure or means through which individuals can communicate their preferences to policy-makers.
What are linkage institutions?
A conference in which a decision is made through formal discussion and vote, used by some states' political party leadership to pick their preferred candidate.
What is a caucus?
The acceptance of the Supreme Court's halt of Florida's election recount in Bush v. Gore(2000), particularly by those who disagreed with the Court's acceptance of the case and its ruling, best represents which American core value?
What is rule of law?
Wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and James Madison?
An ideology that believes in social, economic, and political change to support the well-being of individuals and produce equality
What is Liberalism?
A turning point where several electoral groups change party loyalities, significantly affecting and effected by changes in party strategies and agenda.
What is a critical or realigning election?
The person currently holding a particular office and running for re-election to the same office.
What is an incumbent?
The Liberal view on government interference in economics.
What is that the government should promote economic equality?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the nineteenth amendment?
An ideology that believes in small government with little involvement in the lives of citizens.
What is Libertarian?
The phenomenon in which people enjoy a common resource without contributing anything to its production or maintenance.
What is the free rider problem?
Donations that do not go directly to a political candidate's campaign, and therefore are not as regulated by the Federal Election Commission.
What is soft money?
The Conservative view on government interference in economics.
What is that the government should protect economic freedom?
The year the Constitution was ratified.
When was 1788?
The collective attitudes of citizens about political issues, leaders, institutions, and events.
What is political opinion?
An "independent expenditure-only committee" that has no fundraising or spending limits, but cannot donate directly to political candidates or coordinate with them.
What is a Super P.A.C.?
A landmark Supreme Court decision ruling that, under the First Amendment, the corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited.
What was Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission?
An example of party realignment.
Many key demographics changing parties in the 1932 presidential election. Party realignment is when electoral coalitions that make up the major political parties significantly change, as happened in 1932.
The first ten amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?