Voting Rights and
Behavior
Behavior
This type of voting behavior focuses on the past success and experience of the candidates.
What is retrospective voting?
This refers to the official statement of beliefs that parties publish every four years.
What is a platform?
This is the primary way that interest groups differ from political parties.
What is that interest groups don't nominate candidates?
This refers to the process by which voters participate in an election in order to nominate a candidate.
What is a primary?
This refers to election coverage that only focuses on winning and losing.
What is horse-race journalism?
This Constitutional amendment granted women's suffrage at the national level.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These are the primary reasons that two parties continue to dominate American politics.
What are winner-take-all systems and platforms being adopted by major parties?
This term refers to the direct interaction between interest groups and policymakers. This process often involves the trading of favors and political promise making.
What is lobbying?
This is the number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency.
What is 270?
This refers to the process by which the media decides what is "newsworthy" and what stories the general public will hear about.
What is agenda setting?
This term refers to the extent to which voters believe their participation matters.
What is political efficacy?
This party more often chooses to award delegate support proportionally rather than through a winner-take-all system.
Who are Democrats?
These are more common, less permanent, and more diverse than iron triangles.
What are issue networks?
This term refers to representatives at a nominating convention that are allowed to pledge support for a candidate that did not win the primary in that state.
What are super delegates?
Who is Barack Obama?
This Constitutional amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This term refers to the gathering of support that parties take part in. Sometimes it's also referred to as canvassing.
What is mobilization?
This term refers to individuals who benefit from the work of an interest group without providing financial support.
What are free riders?
Soft money was targeted by this 2002 law.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act?
These two candidates participated in the first televised presidential debates.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon? (1960)
Polling hours and I.D. laws are examples of this type of barrier to voter turnout.
What is a structural barrier?
This term refers to a shift of party support among certain groups of voters. It often occurs after a critical election.
What is political realignment?
This refers to a written document submitted as a “friend of the court” to provide additional information for justices to consider when reviewing a case. Interest groups file these regularly.
What is a amicus curiae brief?
This is the strongest predictor of Congressional candidate re-election.
What is incumbency?
This term refers to the idea that a closed group of people repeat the same beliefs over in an "echo chamber." This leads to avoidance of and hostility towards new ideas.
What is incestuous amplification?