What is activities designed to influence government voting and face-to-face activities such as protesting or volunteering for a campaign?
traditional political participation
100
What is a two-party system?
A political system in which only two parties have a realistic opportunity to compete effectively for control.
100
What is the term for individuals who organize to influence the government's programs and policies.
interest groups
100
What is mobilization?
The process to get citizens to participate in politics and most importantly to vote.
100
What is a benefit to party ID on ballots?
Party ID is a "short cut" to making decisions: therefore if a voter has little information about the election they can vote in accordance to their party
200
What are the most conventional forms of political participation?
Voting, Campaign Activity, Contact Activity, and Communal Activity.
200
What is a divided government?
The condition in American government wherein the presidency is controlled by one party while the opposing party controls one or both houses of congress.
200
What is the interest group that caters to senior citizens?
AARP
200
What are collective goods?
Benefits, sought by groups that are broadly available and cannot be denied to nonmembers.
200
What is retrospective voting?
A method of voting by which an individual considers factors from the past to influence how they are going to vote. Ex. debates and presidential campaigns.
300
online political participation
What are activities designed to influence government using the Internet, including visiting a candidate's website, organizing events online, or signing an online petition?
300
What is the division between the two major parties on most policy issues, with members of each party unified around their party's positions with little crossover?
party polarization
300
Those who enjoy the benefits of collective goods but did not participate in acquiring them.
What are free riders?
300
What is the term for a loose network of elected leaders, public officials, activist, and interest groups drawn together by a specific policy issue.
issue network
300
The idea that groups form in response to events that create threats or opportunities for the members of a group.
What is disturbance theory?
400
What did the Sixth Amendment do?
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
400
What is the term for a national party political institution that nominates the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates, establishes party rules, and writes and ratifies the party platform
national convention
400
Lobbying
the strategy by which organized interest seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on member of the legislature.
400
What is the advertising designed to create a positive image of an organization?
institutional advertising
400
What is disturbance theory?
Partisans who contribute time, energy, and effort to support their party and its candidates.
500
What is Election-Day registration?
The option in some states to register on the day of the election, at the polling place, rather than in advance of the election
500
What is an independent, nonprofit group that receives and disburses funds to influence election campaigns is called?
527 committee
500
What is the iron triangle?
The stable, cooperative relationship that often develops among a congressional committee, an administrative agency, and one or more supportive interest groups.
500
What is grassroots mobilization?
A lobbying campaign in which a group mobilizes its membership to contact government officials in support of the group's position.
500
What is the process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office?