Political Parties and Voting
Complaint about the electoral college
Less populated states overrepresented, presidents losing popular vote and winning office.
This is how interest groups can influence rulings in the courts.
What is amicus curiae brief?
What agency was created to enforce campaign laws and financial disclosure laws?
Federal Election Commission
This is the when news outlets focus on a particular interest and aim at a particular audience.
What is narrowcasting?
A structure within a society that connects the people to the government or centralized authority. These institutions include: elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media.
What is a linkage institution?
refers to the eligibility or the right to vote
suffrage/franchise
This is the stable, cooperative relationship that often develops among a congressional committee, an administrative agency, and one more supportive interest groups.
What is the iron triangle?
What did McCain-Feingold/Bipartisan Campaign reform Act try to do?
Raised the limits on individuals giving hard money to the campaign from $1000 to $2000 (today it's adjusted for inflation and it's $2600). It eliminated soft money (money given to parties for "party building")
This an Independent agency created by Federal Communications Act of 1934 and charged with regulating all non-federal use of the radio spectrum.
What is the Federal Communications Commission?
A strategy by which organized interests seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on government officials
What is lobbying?
When President Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932 political scientist called it this
What is party realignment?
What is the idea that some groups or individuals may benefit from lobbying or interest group activity?
This is the free rider problem.
This was the ruling in Citizens United V FEC.
Corporations and Unions are free to spend as much money on elections as long as they do so INDEPENDENTLY of the campaign itself.
Media focuses on candidates’ standing rather than on the public policy issues.
What is horse-race journalism?
Independent-expenditure committees who can raise unlimited sums from corporations unions and other groups, as well as individuals. They may not coordinate with a campaign. They are also subject to disclosure laws.
These are Super PACs
1870. extended suffrage to black males. Prohibits suffrage restrictions on race.
What is the 15th amendment?
The Federalist Paper that relates most to the idea of interest groups' negative effect on society.
What is Federalist 10?
The case that allowed the Supreme Court to hear cases about gerrymandering - underlined the principal of "one person, one vote."
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Nickname for the media because of its influence of the government, elections, and policy-making activity.
What is the fourth branch/fourth estate?
Describes the condition of one party controlling one or two part of the Legislative and Executive branches (House, Senate, Presidency), but not all three.
What is a Divided Government?
Law that aimed remove the stumbling blocks that interested with black suffrage, prohibiting any government from voting procedures that denied a person the vote on the basis of color including literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The model of democracy that most reflects the prominence of interest groups.
What is pluralist democracy?
The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1974 did many things. Name two.
(A) limited hard money to $1000 per individual (B) Limited how much money someone could spend on their own campaign (C) created ad disclosure requirement (D) Limited PAC's to $5000 in hard money (F) created the FEC (G) Limited money/corruption in elections
Prevented in the case New York Times Co. v. US (1971), the idea that the government may prevent publishing or censor content.
What is prior restraint?
Election that produces a sharp change in the existing pattern of party loyalties among groups of voters - results in change in power between parties