Media
About two-thirds of Americans say that they get at least some of their news from this type of outlet.
Social media
The term used to describe a person running for office.
Candidate
This system is used every four years to determine who will be the President and Vice President of the United States
Electoral College
Name one linkage institution
-Media
-Elections
-Political parties
-Interest groups
This person ran for President twice; once in 1992 as an independent candidates and again in 1996 as a third-party candidate
Ross Perot
This term describes the media's ability to influence what the public perceives as important.
Agenda-setting
This type of candidate is not affiliated with any political party.
Independent candidate
In a(n) _______________, your party affiliation does not determine the type of ballot you will receive.
Open primary OR general election
Identify one way that interest groups can influence policy.
Answers will vary, but can include: filing a lawsuit against the government if they disagree with a regulation or law/executive order; filing an amicus curiae; lobbying; educating the public about a topic and then encouraging them to contact their representatives; working with Congress and/or federal bureaucracy to help write a regulation.
This court case determined that an individual can spend as much of their own money as they want on their own campaign. Need to write out the whole court case name.
Buckley v. Valeo
Press secretary
This court case led to the creation of Super PACs (need to give the entire court case name)
Citizens United v. FEC
This is the term used to describe the race for the office of governor.
Gubernatorial
Iron triangle
This term is used to describe news sources that intentionally reinforce their audience’s view points in order to increase profits from advertising/sponsors.
Consumer-driven media outlets
Due to horse race journalism, many campaign/election-related stories will focus on the results of a recent _______.
Poll
This type of group cannot specifically support any individual candidate
527 (political committee)
If you were a Democrat in Iowa, you would participate in this type of system to cast your vote during the primary.
Caucus
Before this amendment was passed, women were not guaranteed the right to vote in all states.
This piece of legislation initially created the regulation that limited campaign-related, independent expenditures by corporations and unions, but went on to be successfully challenged in the case Citizens United v. FEC. (Need to write the full name of the legislation, not just the acronym).
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
The number of these types of news sites has increased as America has become more polarized.
Partisan news sites
This federal agency oversees campaign finance regulations (Need to write out the whole name; just the acronym will not be accepted)
Federal Election Commission
Seventeenth (17th) Amendment
Identify two types of groups that can donate directly to a candidate's campaign
-PACs
-Political parties
-Individuals
-501(c) group