Public Opinion and Political Socialization (Ch.11)
100
A campaign consultant who conducts public opinion surveys.
What is a pollster
100
A from of newspaper publishing in vogue in the late nineteenth century that featured pictures, comics, color, and sensationalized news coverage.
What is yellow journalism
100
A collection of people or organizations that tries to influence public policy
What is an interest group
100
An implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information
What is executive privilege
100
Unscientific survey used to gauge public opinion on a variety of issues and policies.
What is a straw poll
200
Campaign contributions that are regulated and limited by the Federal Election Commission.
What is hard money
200
A from of journalism, in vogue in the early 20th century, devoted to exposing misconduct by government, business, and individual politicians.
What is muckraking
200
The theory that interest groups form as a result of changes in the political system.
What is disturbance theory
200
Amendment that established the procedures for filling vacancies in the office of president and vice president and includes procedures for dealing with the disability of a president.
What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
200
Continuous surveys that enable a campaign or news organization to chart a candidate's daily rise or fall in support.
What is a tracking poll
300
A push at the end of a political campaign to encourage supporters to go to the polls.
What is Get-out-the-Vote (GOTV)
300
Targeting media programming at specific populations within society.
What is narrowcasting
300
The theory that political power is distributed among a wide array of diverse and competing interest groups.
What is pluralist theory
300
Formal agreement that not require the advice and consent of the Senate.
What is an executive agreement
300
Polls taken for the purpose of providing information on an opponent that would lead respondents to vote against that candidate.
What is a push poll
400
Officially registered fund-raising organization that represents interest groups in the political process.
What is a PAC (political action committee)
400
The process by which a news organization defines a political issue and consequently affects opinion about the issue.
What is framing
400
Funds that an appropriations bill designates for specific projects within a state or congressional district.
What is an earmark
400
Passed by Congress in 1973, the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime(can be extended an extra 30 days).
What is the War Powers Act
400
A measure of the accuracy of a public opinion poll
What is margin of error
500
Ad that compares the records and proposals of the candidates, with a bias toward the candidate sponsoring the ad.
What is a Contrast Ad
500
Information provided to a journalist that will not be attributed to any source.
What is deep background
500
Interest group representative who seeks to influence legislation that will benefit his or her organization or client through political and/or financial persuasion.
What is a lobbyist
500
Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred form the Constitution
What are inherent powers
500
A variation of random sampling; the population is divided into subgroups and weighted based on demographic characteristics of the national population.