Interest Groups
What theory emphasizes competition amound groups for public policy?
Pluralism
What is the job of the party's national committee?
Keeps the party operating between conventions.
Newspaper ciculation is increasing or decreasing over the past 30 years?
Decreasing a lot
What is the main difference between political parties and interest groups?
Political Parties run candidates for office to control and run government.
True or False/ The Republican Party was founded as a pro slavery party in the 1850s.
False (Anti Slavery)
What is the most common type of action by an interest group?
Lobbying
A voter's percection of what the Republicans and Democrats stand for is called what?
Party Image
FCC Federal Communications Commission was created in 1934 to do what?
Regulated the airwaves (radio and television) Not the content of printed newspapers.
What was the issue that caused the big realignment of party affiliation in 1932?
Great Depression
African Americans, Labor Unions, Rural voters shifted to the Democrats
What theory contends societies are divided amoung classes and ruled by the rich?
Elitism
Where does each party create their party platform and is their ultimate supreme power within each party.
National Convention
Newspapers owned by massive conglomerates are called?
Chain Newspapers
What do you call an intentional leak to see public reaction?
Trial Balloon
Combining plaintiffs with similar grievances cases into a single suit is called what?
Class Action Lawsuit
The term subgovernment also means what?
Iron triangle: a closed, cooperative alliance where congressional committees, executive branch agencies, and special interest groups make policy behind the scenes
Name one of the leaders of the first party system in the United States from both the Federalist and Democratic Republican party.
Alexander Hamilton John Adams Federalist
Thomas Jefferson James Madison Democratic Republicans (Democratic Republicans dominated the first party era as the Federalists died out) Era of good feeling
Which of these countries has an exclusive state run media?
Canada, Cuba, Columbia, Cambodia
Cuba
Debates in the past had longer or shorter time to speak uninterrupted for candidates?
Longer 45 seconds in the 1960s to about 10 seconds in the 2000s.
What is a long term shirt in party loyalty called?
Realignment
Written arguments attached to a court case usually heard by the Supreme Court is called what.
Amicus Curiae Briefs
Soft money for Political Parties refers to what?
Money given directly to the party that they use as Funds for Party Building.
Foreign news coverage is increasing or decreasing here in the US.
Decreasing (4000 minutes in 1989 to 1300 minutes in 2000)
What type of pluralism can lead to policy gridlock?
Hyperpluralism
Increasing public attention to a problem by the media is called what?
agenda-setting power