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Supporters of this party emphasize personal responsibility, self-reliance, and “America First” policies, where there is a strong focus on defending the Constitution and protecting traditional American values is common.
Who are Republicans (Conservatives)?
This is an organization of people sharing common objectives who actively attempt to influence government policymakers through direct and indirect methods.
What is an Interest Group?
The media are sometimes referred to this branch of government because they provide a check on the power of government and political leaders.
What is the "4th Branch of Government"?
The media reports of the Watergate affair led to this president's resignation.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This was a top-secret 1967 Department of Defense study detailing U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This is a group designed to raise and spend money to influence the outcome of elections, specifically to elect or defeat political candidates.
What is a Political Action Committee (PAC)?
This was one of his biggest fears. He argued that party strife "opens the door to foreign influence and corruption," allowing foreign governments to manipulate different factions to serve their own interests rather than America's.
Who is George Washington?
In a political context this is a group of individuals within a larger entity, such as a government or political part, who are united by a specific interest or goal that differs from the rest of the group.
What is a Faction?
_______________ is how privately owned media companies in the United States earn most of their revenue.
What is Advertising?
This media source is how most Americans hear the news.
What is Television?
This man leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971, which exposed decades of government deception regarding the Vietnam War's expansion, proving administrations lied to Congress and the public.
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
This type of voting occurs when supporters of a minor party candidate vote for their favorite major party candidate, based on the impression that the minor party candidate is unlikely to win.
What is Strategic Voting?
This is the average winning margin in House elections.
What is 40%?
This president's Farewell Address was not a speech delivered in person. Instead, it was a written letter published in a newspaper on September 19, 1796.
Who is George Washington?
This is a small number of giant, privately owned corporations control most of the country’s television networks, movie studios, record companies, cable channels, book publishers, magazines, newspapers, and digital media sites.
What is Media Ownership?
This theory posits that how information is presented significantly influences how audiences interpret and understand issues.
What is Framing?
The Supreme Court ruled the government could not block the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
What is New York Times Co. v. United States?
The American system for electing members of Congress is often referred to as this because the candidate with the most votes wins, even if he or she did not win a majority of the popular vote.
What is the "first past post"?
These are incentives that interest groups make available only to those people who are members of their organizations.
What are Selective Benefits?
_____________________ and Political parties are two of the most easily identified forms of factions in the United States because these groups are similar in that they are both mediating institutions responsible for communicating public preferences to the government.
What are Interest Groups?
This is the professional, regulated practice of attempting to influence government decisions, legislation, or regulations on behalf of clients or organizations.
What is Lobbying?
This theory, developed by McCombs and Shaw in 1968, posits that mass media influences public perception by prioritizing specific topics, effectively telling audiences "what to think about," rather than what to think.
What is Agenda-setting?
As a third-party candidate, Ross Perot captured approximately ________ percent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election.
What is 20%?
During the Progressive Era this was introduced as a key democratic reform to allow voters to approve or repeal legislation passed by state legislatures.
What is a Referendum?
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) effectively used this type of lobbying campaign to support and lower the legal blood alcohol limit across many states in the 1980's.
What is a Grassroots Lobbying Campaign?
Solidary benefits of this type of group includes friendship, networking, and camaraderie among members who share similar values or interests.
What is Interest Groups?
In economic terms, it is "rational" for an individual to do this. If a citizen knows the service will exist whether they contribute or not, they gain more utility by keeping their money and still reaping the benefit.
What is to "FREE RIDE"?
In the two decades following the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, the national approval rating of Congress hovered between 30 and ______ percent, then trended upward in the 1990s, before trending downward in the twenty-first century.
What is 40%?
An _______________ is a mutually beneficial, three-way alliance between congressional subcommittees, bureaucratic agencies, and interest groups designed to create favorable policies.
What is an Iron Triangle?
The ________________ was introduced during the Progressive Era, is a democratic reform allowing citizens to bypass state legislatures and directly place proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot via petition.
What is the Initiative?