This type of election is run directly by the political parties.
What is a primary or caucus?
100
This is the number of days in advance you must register to vote in Texas.
What is 30?
100
What structure of the Texas constitution most greatly limits the governor's power?
What is the Plural Executive?
100
How many county courts are there in Texas?
What is 254?
100
These are three words social scientists use to describe Texas' political culture.
What are traditional, individualistic and moralistic?
200
This is the type of structure the County Executive Committee is part of.
What is the permanent structure?
200
This is the type of primary where only a registered party member can vote in that party's race.
What is a closed primary?
200
This person serves in both the plural executive and as the resident of the state senate.
Who is the Lt. Gov.?
200
Most judges in Texas are elected in _____________ elections.
What is partisan?
200
This is the only Texas governor to be impeached.
Who is James "Pa" Ferguson?
300
This is the term for trying to get candidates sympathetic to your cause elected to office.
What is electioneering?
300
This is the amendment that gave African-American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This is the total number of state representatives and senators in Texas?
What is 181?
300
This is the highest court for civil appeals in Texas.
What is the Texas Supreme Court?
300
This was a court case in 1972 that led to widespread prison reforms in Texas.
What is Ruiz v. Estelle?
400
These are two roles of independant candidates in elections.
To serve as a release valve, to facilitate realignment and dealignment, to split votes and to raise awareness of issues.
400
This is an election to elect state and federal officials that occurs in November two years after the presidential race.
What is a midterm election?
400
These are the three options that the governor has regarding a bill.
What are sign it into law, not sign it (but it becomes law) and veto it?
400
These are the major trial courts in Texas. All felony cases start here.
What are District Courts?
400
This is the year that Texas adopted its current constitution.
What is 1876?
500
This is the definition of realignment.
A realignment is a long-term (30 years) change in nature of parties including a change in constituencies, a change in issues and/or a change in majority status.
500
This is term for an outline of a candidate's views and agenda that is used during a campaign.
What is a platform?
500
These are four members of the plural executive
Who are the the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the land commissioner, the commissioner of agriculture, the comptroller of public accounts and the secretary of state?
500
This is the group that is authorized to hear complaints against any judge in the state and to censure, reprimand, or recommend removal by the Texas Supreme Court.
What is the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct?
500
This is the governor that was in power during the reconstruction period.