Voting & Behavior
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
These institutions connect citizens to government.
What are linkage institutions?
This is when individuals benefit from a group without contributing.
What is the free rider problem?
This advantage benefits current officeholders.
What is incumbency advantage?
This law banned soft money in federal elections.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002)?
This voting model evaluates candidates based on past performance.
What is retrospective voting?
This type of election realigns party support and coalitions.
What is a critical election?
These are incentives used to encourage group membership.
What are selective benefits?
What are primaries?
This Supreme Court case ruled money = free speech.
What is Citizens United v. FEC?
This is the strongest predictor of whether someone will vote.
What is education level?
This system makes it difficult for third parties to succeed.
What is winner-take-all?
This relationship includes Congress, bureaucracy, and interest groups.
What is an iron triangle?
This meeting-based system is used to select candidates in some states.
What are caucuses?
These organizations can raise unlimited money but cannot coordinate directly with candidates.
What are Super PACs?
This refers to a belief that one's political participation matters.
What is political efficacy?
This is when parties adopt ideas from third parties
What is platform absorption?
This type of brief is submitted to the Supreme Court by outside groups.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
This number of electoral votes is needed to win the presidency.
What is 270?
This media function determines what issues people think about.
What is agenda setting?
This type of voting supports all candidates from one party.
What is straight-ticket voting?
This modern trend focuses more on candidates than parties.
What are candidate-centered campaigns?
This theory explains why small groups are more effective than large ones.
What is The Logic of Collective Action (Olson)?
This 2000 Supreme Court case decided a presidential election.
What is Bush v. Gore
This type of journalism focuses on polls and who is winning.
What is horse-race journalism?