Political Parties
The one exception to the rule that the U.S. always has two major parties.
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
They were partly responsible for the infamous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, but helped explain the Holocaust Poll.
What is the Gallup Organization?
A provision that guaranteed Southerners the right to vote based on their ancestry.
What was a Grandfather Clause?
The amount of debt added in a budget because spending exceeds revenue.
What is a deficit?
Challenges the notion that those higher in a command structure have most power.
What is the Principal-Agent Problem/Dilemma?
James Madison warned about them in his famous Federalist #10 essay.
What are factions?
Refers to when a poll is skewed because the people sampled were unrepresentative.
What is a selection effect?
The period when Congress passed sweeping civil-rights legislation.
What were the (mid-)Sixties?
The post-WWII defense alliance whose expansion has become controversial with Russia.
What is NATO?
The way the Civil Rights Movement has been overwhelmingly associated Martin Luther King, Jr., is an example of this.
What is Celebrity Bias?
The vote-gathering organizations that dominated city politics in many places in the 19th Century.
What were urban machines?
Refers to how the public's preferences can be inconsistent, imposing expectations Congress cannot fulfill?
What is Unrealistic (Public Opinion)?
White voters whose partisanship deviated from that of other whites in the "Solid" South.
What are Mountain Republicans?
A controversial policy that would give parents more flexibility in public education.
What are school vouchers?
Refers to an institutional design that prevents the majority from ruling.
What is counter-majoritarian?
Whe are independent leaners?
The term for a survey experiment that randomly gives respondents different question versions.
What is a split-sample design?
He integrated the U.S. military as part of his reelection effort.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
Government spending protected from the budgetary process because imposed by other laws.
What is "mandatory" or "entitlement" spending?
The way we focus on recessions, but ignore the impact of long-term economic growth, is an example of this.
What is Event Bias?
The swing voter group at the end of the 20th Century that typically determined presidential-election outcomes.
Who are Southern Whites?
It's the imprecision in a poll caused by only looking at a subset of the population.
What is sampling error?
Allowed WWII veterans, including African Americans, to gain education/wealth.
What was the G.I. Bill?
Their lack of territory or clear leadership makes it hard to fight them.
What are non-state actors?
The sort of power exercised when decision get made passively or implicitly, such in response to anticipatory effects?
What is the Second Face of Power?