Voting Rights/Behavior
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This law allows voter registration at the DMV.
What is the Motor Voter Law?
These institutions connect the public to the government through mobilization and education.
What are Political Parties?
This term describes the advantage held by someone already in office.
What is the Incumbency Advantage?
This media role involves setting the political agenda.
What is Gatekeeper?
This voting model involves looking back at a candidate's or party's past performance.
What is Retrospective Voting?
This type of ballot is used when a voter's eligibility is in question.
What is a Provisional Ballot?
This type of party forms to split off from a major party.
What is a Splinter Party?
This term refers to a candidate’s campaign fundraising total.
What is a War Chest?
What is “horse-race journalism”?
What is focusing on polling data and popularity instead of issues?
This 1964 amendment banned poll taxes.
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
This act aimed to make voting more accurate and accessible after the 2000 election issues.
What is the Help America Vote Act (2002)?
What is the purpose of a party platform at a national convention?
What is to define party beliefs and goals?
What type of PAC can raise unlimited money but cannot directly coordinate with candidates?
What is a Super PAC?
This term refers to people who benefit from interest group work without joining.
What are Free-Riders?
Citizens under this age could not vote until the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
What is 18?
True or False: Most states require a photo ID to vote.
What is False?
This type of campaign is focused more on the candidate than the party.
What is a Candidate-Centered Campaign?
What was the main outcome of Citizens United v. FEC (2010)?
What is allowed unlimited independent political spending?
Describe an Iron Triangle.
What is the relationship between Congress, bureaucracy, and interest groups?
Explain the difference between prospective and rational-choice voting models.
What is forward-looking policy alignment vs. self-interest evaluation?
Name two demographic factors that influence voter turnout and explain how.
What are age, race, gender, income, etc.?
Explain the impact of the McGovern-Fraser Commission on the Democratic Party.
What is increased influence of non-elites and creation of superdelegates?
Define the “Winner-Take-All” system and how it affects third parties.
What is the electoral system that awards all electoral votes to the plurality winner, disadvantaging third parties?
Compare narrowcasting and mainstream media.
What is targeted, biased programming vs. traditional, broader reporting?