Voters
Bureaucracy
Presidents
Grab Bag
Public Opinion
100
Act of voting for a candidate of one party for president and another party's candidate for senator.
What is split-ticket voting?
100
Promotes hiring on the basis of merit and establishes nonpartisian employment in the federal government.
What is the civil service system?
100
He said it is time to get the government off of the backs of the people.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
100
It forbids cruel and unusual punishment in the U.S. judicial system.
What is the 8th Amendment?
100
Poll taken randomly at selected polling places after citizens have voted.
What is an exit poll?
200
When one party controls one branch of government and the other party controls another branch of government.
What is divided government?
200
The use of government authority to control or change some practice in the private sector.
What is regulation?
200
His domestic policy program was known as the Great Society.
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
200
The institutions with the authority to make public policy for a society.
What is government?
200
Process by which citizens acquire their knowledge, feelings, and evaluations of their political world.
What is political socialization?
300
State-level voting procedure that allows citizens to approve or disapprove proposed legislation.
What is a referendum?
300
The authority of bureaucrats to select among various reponses to a given problem.
What is administrative discretion?
300
His handling of the Iranian Hostage Crisis brought about his reelection defeat.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
A system of government based on the consent of the governed where power is exercised by representatives of the public.
What is a republic?
300
Constitutional requirement of a 10-year population count to determine representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is the census?
400
The belief that ordinary people can influence govenrment.
What is political efficacy?
400
The FCC is an example of this type of agency.
What is an independent regulatory agency?
400
The first president to make $400,000 a year.
Who is George W. Bush?
400
Direct democracy tehcnique that allows proposed legislative items to be placed on a ballot when enough petition signatures are obtained.
What is an intitiative petition?
400
A coherent set of beliefs about government and politics.
What is a political ideology?
500
Theory of voting in which voters ask--"what have you done for me lately?"
What is retrospective voting?
500
Passed in 1940, it prohibits government workers from active partisian political participation.
What is the Hatch Act?
500
The only president in the 20th century to not have run for president or vice preisdent.
Who was Gerald Ford?
500
A bill passed by Congress during the budget process setting limits on expenditures based on revenue projections.
What is a budget resolution?
500
Unconventional political participation designed to consciously break a law thought to be unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
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