Voting Rights and Behavior
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This type of election typically has the highest turnout.
What is a presidential election?
What are Linking institutions?
This document is filed by interest groups to influence court decisions.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
This case ruled corporate spending is protected speech.
What is Citizens United v. FEC (2010)?
This media effect influences what issues people think about.
This media effect influences what issues people think about.
Correctly identify the following four amendments:
- Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US, including slaves
- Women's Suffrage
- banned denying the right to vote based on color
- The Direct election of senators
What is 14, 19, 15, and 17
This model of voting is based on judging past performance.
What is retrospective voting?
This is the belief that participation matters and influences turnout.
What is political efficacy?
This party function includes fundraising and campaign organization.
What is campaign management?
This relationship includes Congress, bureaucracy, and interest groups.
What is an iron triangle?
These meetings select party nominees in some states.
What are caucuses?
This type of journalism focuses on polling over policy.
What is horse-race journalism?
This amendment eliminated poll taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Name one structural barrier that affects turnout.
What are voter ID laws / polling hours / registration laws / early voting rules?
This type of election causes long-term party realignment.
What is a critical election?
This problem occurs when people benefit without contributing.
What is the free rider problem?
This constitutional article establishes the Electoral College.
What is Article II of the Constitution?
This amendment protects political spending as free speech.
What is the First Amendment?
This law enforced the 15th Amendment and banned literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
________ people are more likely to vote than __________ people.
What is Old/Young
This is the election system that prevents third parties from having any success in US elections.
What is Winner-Take-All?
These encourage membership by offering incentives.
What are selective benefits?
This type of PAC can raise unlimited independent expenditures.
What is a Super PAC?
Social media and the internet have caused this to increase in modern american politics, especially between political parties.
What is Polarization?
This amendment established direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Voter ID laws are an example of this type of turnout factor.
What is a structural barrier?
This trend focuses campaigns more on candidates than parties.
What are candidate-centered campaigns?
Name one group that influences policy outcomes besides interest groups.
What are social movements / bureaucracies / military / political parties / professional organizations?
This law banned soft money in 2002.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act?
This foundational document warns about factions and interest groups.
What is Federalist No. 10?
This model describes voting based on what benefits you personally.
What is rational choice voting?
Education and income fall under this category of turnout predictors.
What are demographic factors?
Third parties often play this role by drawing votes away from major candidates.
What is the spoiler effect?
These are seen as more informal alliances between similar interest groups who are aligned on policy.
What are issue networks?
This is any finances used to benefit a political party but not a specific candidate, in order to get around campaign donation limits
What is Soft Money?
This case struck down aggregate contribution limits.
What is McCutcheon v. FEC (2014)?