Voting Amendments and Practice
Voting for a candidate based on their "track record" as a politician.
What is retrospective voting?
Third party candidates really struggle with this state practice in the electoral college when it comes to presidential elections.
What is "winner-take-all?"
This linkage institution sometimes is referred to as the "fourth branch of government" and is designed to publicly display events that are taking place in our country.
What is the media?
This amendment has been connected to the freedom to spend on campaigns.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Major party candidates usually do this to gain supporters of minor parties.
What is adopting some of their policy?
Efforts to ease registration procedures have increased this dramatically.
What is voter-turnout or voting?
This has been recently used for political parties to promote fundraising and campaigning. Also a place where more Americans view the news and media than ever before.
What is technology and/or social media?
This linkage institution puts the public in touch with platforms of candidates seeking election.
What are political parties?
The connectedness of Interest Groups generating money for Congressional Campaigns, Congress creating legislation to benefit an interest group and/or a specific executive department in the bureaucracy.
What are iron triangles?
The attention the media pays to covering who is ahead in political races rather than the issues.
What is horse-race journalism?
This Constitutional amendment has caused more young people to vote in American elections.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This is something definite, that political parties tend to do in months leading up to the election (especially presidential elections.)
What is nominating candidates?
This linkage institution looks to work with elected officials to push for policy representative of their sector of society.
What are interest groups?
Someone who clings to an interest group but does not become fully involved in lobbying, donating, or supporting.
What is a free-rider?
Political TV news viewership tends to be highest near these events.
What are presidential elections?
This type of candidate tends to dominate elections.
Who is the "incumbent" candidate?
The type of election is used to narrow down candidates for a presidential election.
What is the primary election?
Policy-making and budget making from Congress most directly impact these. (Not the people)
What are bureaucratic agencies?
True or False: According to Supreme Court precedent, corporations may spend general treasury funds to support political campaigns.
What is False?
The media has this special responsibility to display political corruption or poor work by elected officials.
What is watchdog or adversarial press?