Bureaucracy
This term refers to a comprehensive plan to restructure the federal government along ultraconservative lines.
What is Project 2025?
This candidate won about 19% of the vote in 1992 as a third-party candidate.
Who is Ross Perot?
These groups can raise unlimited funds but cannot coordinate with candidates.
What are Super PACs?
This type of coverage emphasizes candidates’ proposals, their records, and the likely effects of their policies.
What is policy-focused coverage?
Respect for democracy, liberty, equality, and individualism are examples of this concept.
What is political culture?
This decade saw the first major expansion of the federal bureaucracy.
What are the 1930s?
This issue fractured the Whigs and led to the rise of the Republican party under Abraham Lincoln.
What is slavery?
This is the number of electoral votes needed to win the Electoral College.
What is 270?
This kind of political coverage focuses on who is ahead, who raised more money, and campaign tactics rather than substance.
What is horse-race coverage?
This process describes how individuals acquire their political beliefs and values over time.
What is political socialization?
These departments serve specific groups such as farmers or veterans.
What are clientele departments?
This percentage (poll threshold) is required to enter presidential debates.
What is 15 percent?
This system of allocating state electoral votes in the Electoral College is only used in Maine and Nebraska.
What is the congressional district method?
If viewers constantly see coverage of violent crime and then judge politicians by whether they seem “tough on crime,” this is an example of this effect.
What is priming?
This concept refers to a consistent set of beliefs about politics that helps individuals interpret the world.
What is political ideology?
These bodies create and enforce regulations in specific policy areas and are led by bipartisan boards.
What are Independent Regulatory Commissions (IRCs)?
This percentage of prior vote is required for public funding.
What is 5 percent?
This law made voter registration easier through government agencies.
What is the Motor Voter Act?
If media outlets devote heavy attention to immigration, crime, or war, this media effect says the public will view those issues as more pressing.
What is agenda-setting?
Differences in this factor contribute to variation in public opinion: income and class position.
What is socioeconomic status?
This 1883 law replaced patronage with a merit-based civil service.
What is the Pendleton Act?
(Two answers) These structural aspects of the United States' electoral system are the central reasons it is hard for third parties to be competitive in elections.
What are single-member, winner-take-all districts with plurality voting?
(Two answers) This measure of voter turnout includes all people of voting age, while this measure includes only eligible citizens.
What are VAP and VEP?
(Two answers) This framing style tends to increase the public’s tendency to assign responsibility to government or systems, while this framing style tends to individualize blame in public opinion.
What are thematic framing and episodic framing?
This scholar wrote “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics” (1964), which questioned whether Americans think in coherent ideological terms.
Who is Philip Converse?