Miscellaneous
Hodgepodge
Sundry
Assorted Thoughts
Potent Potables
100
The process of preparing the public to take a particular view of an event or a political actor/elite.
What is Priming?
100
This principle of politics states that all people have goals, and their political behavior is guided by these goals.
What is the Rationality Principle?
100
The theory that all interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the government.
What is Pluralism?
100
The process by which some people enjoy the benefits of a good while letting others incur costs.
What is Free Riding?
100
The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political behavior, thereby shaping the political process.
What are Institutions?
200
An issue or aspect of a choice for which all voters prefer a higher value.
What is a Valence Issue?
200
The cost of clarifying each aspect of a principal-agent relationship and monitoring it to ensure arrangement compliance.
What are Transaction Costs?
200
The power of the media or elites to influence how events and issues are interpreted by the public.
What is Framing?
200
A method used by pollsters to select a representative sample in which every individual in the population has an equal probability of being selected as a respondent.
What is a Probability Sample?
200
The apportionment of voters in districts in such a way to give unfair advantage to one political party
What is Gerrymandering?
300
To reach the state supreme court, a defendant must petition the _________ following a decision from the __________.
What are the State Appellate Courts, State Trial Courts?
300
An agreement between the President and a foreign country that has the power and force of a treaty but does not require the "advice and consent" of the U.S. Senate.
What is Executive Agreement?
300
The claim that confidential communications between the President and the President's close advisor should not be revealed without the consent of the President.
What is Executive Privilege?
300
Powers reserved to the government to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens.
What are Police Powers?
300
As opposed to Political Action Committees (PACs), these organizations have unlimited funding, but must report donors to the Federal Elections Commission.
What are Super PACs?
400
Unlike libel, which is written, ________ is an oral statement made in "reckless disregard of the truth" and considered damaging to the victims between it is "malicious, scandalous, and defamatory."
What is Slander?
400
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court asserted the power of the courts to declare actions of the legislative and executive branches invalid or unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
400
Local party organization that controlled local politics through patronage and nomination processes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is a Party Machine?
400
Benefits that do not go to everyone, but are distributed in a selective fashion (e.g. only to those who take part in the collective group enterprise).
What are Selective Benefits?
400
A process by which citizens may petition to place a policy proposal on the ballot for public vote.
What is an Initiative?
500
The domain over which an institution or member of an institution has authority.
What is Jurisdiction?
500
The provision of the House Rules Committee that permits floor debate and the addition of amendments to a bill.
What is an Open Rule?
500
An electorate that is allowed to elect only one representative from each district- the typical method of representation in the US.
What is a Single-Member District?
500
As opposed to _________ like the Fed, in which monetary and fiscal policy is decided, the FDA is an example of a _______, whose primary purpose is to restrict certain behaviors defined as negative in themselves or their consequences.
What are Agencies of Redistribution, Regulatory Agency.
500
An association of members of Congress based on party, interest, or social characteristics such as gender or race. For example, organizing around oil or fishing rights.
What is a Congressional Caucus?
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