The division of power between a central government and regional governments.
What is Federalism
100
The collected attitudes of citizens concerning a given issue or question.
What is Public Opinion
100
The means employed in mass communication, often divided into print media and broadcast media.
What is Mass Media
100
A requirement that a state undertake an activity or provide a service, in keeping with minimum national standards.
What is Mandate
100
Money provided by one level of government to another, to be spent for a given purpose.
What is Grant-in-Aid
200
Those powers that Congress requires in order to execute its enumerated powers.
What is Implied Powers
200
The complex process by which people acquire their political values.
What is Political Socialization
200
Communications technologies, such as the fax and the Internet, used primarily within groups of people with common interests.
What is Group Media
200
A requirement laid down by act of Congress, prohibiting a state or local government from exercising a certain power.
What is Restraint
200
A grant-in-aid targeted for a specific purpose either by formula or by project.
What is Categorical Grants
300
A view that holds that the constitution is an agreement among people who are citizens of both state and nation, so there is little distinction between state powers and national powers.
What is Cooperative Federalism
300
Position in society, based on a combination of education, occupational status,band income.
What is socioeconomic status
300
The practice of mixing journalism with theater, employed by some news programs.
What is Infotainment
300
A list of issues that needs government attention.
What is Political Agenda
300
A categorical grant distributed according to a particular formula, which specifies who is eligible for the grants and how much each eligible applicant will receive.
What is Formula Grant
400
The declaration by a state that a particular action of the national government is not applicable to that state.
What is Nullification
400
The implication that people choose what benefits them personally.
What is Self Interest Principle
400
Media executives, news editors, and prominent reporters who direct the flow of news.
What is Gatekeepers
400
Election coverage by the mass media that focuses on which candidate is ahead, rather than in national issues.
What is Horse Race Journalism
400
A categorical grant awarded on the basis of competitive applications submitted by prospective recipients.
What is Project Grant
500
The power of Congress to enact laws by which the national government assumes total or partial responsibility for a state government function.
What is Preemption
500
A network of organized knowledge and beliefs that guides a persons processing of information regarding a particular subject.
What is Opinion Schema
500
The belief that television is to blame for the low level of citizens' knowledge about public affairs.
What is Television Hypothesis
500
A symmetrical bell shaped distribution of opinions, centered on a sinkage mode, or most requent response.
What is Normal Distribution
500
A grant-in-aid awarded for general purposes, allowing the recipient great discretion in spending the grant money.