A system of jurisprudence, including private law and governmental action, for settling disputes that do not involve criminal penalties.
What is Civil Law?
100
The three “faces of the party.”
What are parties in government, as organizations, and in the electorate?
100
One of the main purposes for which individuals form groups.
What are Economic Interests?
100
A law, rule, statute, or edict that expresses the government’s goals and provides for rewards and punishments to promote their attainment.
What is Public Policy?
100
Founded in 1945, replacing the League of Nations as a channel for negotiation and a means of settling international disputes peaceably.
What is the United Nations?
200
Literally means “let the decision stand.”
What is Stare Decisis?
200
The process by which political parties select their candidate for election to public office.
What is Nomination?
200
Wrote The Logic of Collective Action, an important book arguing that individuals that organize into groups face the prisoner’s dilemma.
Who is Mancur Olson?
200
The differences between the private cost and the social cost of economic behavior.
What are Externalities?
200
The desire to avoid involvement in the affairs of other nations.
What is Isolationism?
300
A formal request by an appellant to have the Supreme Court review a decision of a lower court.
What is a Writ of Certiorari?
300
These lower the information costs of participating by providing a recognizable “brand name.”
What are Parties?
300
These individuals accrue their own benefits in return for doing the work of organizing. They complement selective benefits to help overcome collective action problems
What are Political Entrepreneurs?
300
A good that 1) may be enjoyed by anyone if it is provided and 2) may not be denied to anyone once it has been provided.
What is a Public Good?
300
A foreign policy based on the idea that the United States should take preemptive action against threats to its national security.
What is the Bush Doctrine?
400
A court order demanding that an individual in custody be brought into court and shown the cause for detention.
What is a Writ of Habeas Corpus?
400
The efforts of parties to mobilize potential voters, to get them to register and to the polls to vote for their candidates.
What is GOTV?
400
Directly trying to influence decision makers, and pursuing advocacy through the courts.
What are Insider Strategies?
400
Taxation that hits the upper income brackets more heavily.
What is Progressive Taxation?
400
The international trade agency promoting free trade that grew out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
What is the World Trade Organization?
500
Cases involving the action of public agencies or officials.
What is Public Law?
500
From the collapse of the Federalists until the 1830s, America had only one political party.
What is What were the Democratic-Republicans OR the "Era of Good Feeling?"
500
Educating the public, campaigning and contributing to candidates.
What are Outsider Strategies?
500
The amount of liquid assets and ready cash that the Federal Reserve requires banks to hold to meet depositors’ demands for their money.
What is the Reserve Requirement?
500
A treaty organization comprising the United States, Canada, and most of Western Europe, formed in 1949 to counter the perceived threat from the Soviet Union.