Voting with one party for one office and another party for other offices is called this.
What is ticket splitting?
100
This includes election, political parties, interest groups, and the media.
What are linkage institutions?
100
Electoral contenders other than the two major parties are know as these.
What are third parties?
100
National party leaders who automatically get a delegate slot at the national party convention is callled this.
What is a superdelegate?
100
This is a six member bipartisan agency created by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974.
What is the Federal Election Commission?
200
Elections to select party nominees in which only people who have registered in advance with the party can vote for the party's candidate is called this.
What is a closed primary?
200
Elections to select party noninees in which voters can decide on Election Day whether they want to participate in the democratic or Republican contests is called this.
What is an open primary?
200
An electoral "earthquake" where new issues emerge, new coalitions replace old ones, and the majority party is often dispalced by the minority party is called this.
What is a critical election?
200
The master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaigns is known as this.
What is a campaign strategy?
200
Money from the $3 federal income tax check goes to this.
What is the Presidential Election Campaign Fund?
300
This is a system for selecting convention delegates used in about a dozen mostly rural states.
What is a caucus?
300
This is a political partiy's ststement of its goals and policies for the next four years.
What is a party platform?
300
The gradual disengagement of people from the parties is known as this.
What is party dealignment?
300
the recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention is know as this.
What is frontloading.
300
$250 from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund is given to candidates for the Presidential nomination who qualify and agree to meet various conditions, such as limiting overall spending is this.
What is matching funds?
400
Political contributions earmarked for party building expenses at the grass roots level for generic party advertising is known as this.
What is soft money?
400
The supreme power within each of the parties is known as this.
What is a national party convention?
400
Coalition forged by the Democrats, who dominated American politics from the 1930s to the 1960s is know as this coalition.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
400
This would replace the current system of caucuses and presidential primaries.
What is a national primary?
400
Groups that are expempted from reporting their contributions and can recieve unlimited contributions are known as this.
What are 501 groups?
500
According to Anthony Downs, a team of men and women seeking to control the government apparatus by gaining office in a duly constituted election is know as this.
What is a political party?
500
This theory in political science explains actions of voters as well as politicians and also assumes that individuals act in their own best interest, carefully weighing the costs and benefits of possible alternatives.
What is the rational-choice theory?
500
A widely adopted way of thinking about political parties in political science is as "three headed political giants," name all three.
What is the party in the electorate, as an organization, and in government?
500
These are funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reform.
What are political action committees or PACs?
500
These are independent political groups that are not subject to contribution restrictions.