Was elected president in 1824 by the House of representatives although he had fewer popular votes and fewer electoral votes than his opponent, Andrew Jackson. Whereas Grover Cleveland in 1888 and Albert Gore in 2000 had more popular votes but fewer electoral votes and did not become presidents.
What is Adams, John Quincy
100
Donors are "Fat Cats," Political Action Committees, patronage seekers, ideologues, and those seeking ACCESS to policy makers.
What is Campaign Financing
100
Broad based parties that encompass people of diverse interests.
What is Pragmatic
100
A form of non-violent protest against unjust laws and acceptance of penalties for ones acts.
What is Civil Disobedience
100
Free use of government mail by a Member of Congress to communicate with constituents.
What is Congressional Franking Privilege
200
Process through which the media focuses attention on particular issues and causes people and government to pay attention to them. Media's decision to cover and How to cover some stories and not others gives it the power to determine the important issues of the day.
What is Agenda Setting
200
Management of political campaigns has been shifting from political parties to PROFESSIONAL campaign management firms in the past two decades.
What is campaign management
200
Broad coalitions of state and local party organizations.
What is Decentralized
200
Party primaries open to voters registered as party members and is closed to the outsiders. Political leaders and party loyalists prefer closed primaries.
What is Closed Primaries
200
Include Voting, writing letters, making campaign contributions, putting bumper stickers etc.
What is Conventional Form of Political Participation
300
Is the largest and most effective interest groups in America because of the size, wealth, and the organizational skills of the group.
What is American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
300
One who enters politics early in life and makes it ones career.
What is Career Politician
300
Loose association of conflicting ideological, geographic, economic, social, and political interest joined to win elections to gain power.
What is Undisciplined
300
Government regulation of independent campaign spending by organizations such as PACs violates First Amendment guarantee of Freedom Expression.
What is Commercial Speech
300
Decline of political loyalty of voters for both major parties and their increasing identification as independents.
What is De-Alignment
400
Those that opposed the ratification of the constitution on the grounds that it lacked a bill of rights and it proposed a strong national government too.
What is Anti-Federalists
400
Mass media’s attraction to scandal and its zeal to expose scandal and the personal failings of political leaders gives it the pretentious role character cop.
What is Character Cop
400
Government is controlled by one or the other of two major parties election after election.
What is Two party system
400
The three most important components of public opinion are INTENSITY, STABILITY, and SALIENCE (the degree of relevance/importance that an issue holds for a person).
What is Components of Public Opinion
400
are MINORITIES like JEWS, African Americans, Hispanics, Puerto Ricans, lower income, lower educated, blue collar, union workers, and inner city residents.
What is Democrat Voters
500
Rights of the first ten amendments of the constitution protect people from GOVERNMENT power and from improper actions of public officials.
What is Bill of Rights
500
CHARACTERSTICOF POLITICAL PARTIES
What is Essay Review
500
One of the most influential Christian fundamentalist groups.
What is Christian Coalition
500
Monopolistic ownership (media chains), Commercialism (advertisement revenue), and Sensationalism (O. J. Simpson coverage).
What is Concerns over media to assess public opinion
500
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AND REASONS FOR THE OBSCURITY OF THOSE DIFFERENCES