A set of beliefs about politics, public policy, and public purpose, which helps give meaning to political events
What is political ideology?
100
Elections in which a state’s voters go to the polls to express their preference for a party’s nominee for president; most delegates to the national party convention are
chosen this way
What is presidential primaries?
100
The legal right to vote
What is suffrage?
100
Gender gap refers to the difference in women and men that make up the U.S. population.
What is false?
100
The purpose of this method of campaigning is to raise money for a political candidate or cause by contacting those who had supported similar causes in the past
What is direct mail?
200
An “actual enumeration” of the population, which the Constitution requires that the government conduct every 10 years
What is the census?
200
A system for selecting convention delegates used in about a dozen mostly rural states in which voters must show up at a set time and attend an open meeting to express
their presidential preference
What is a caucus?
200
When people base their choices in an election on their own issues preferences
What is policy voting?
200
Voting is the most common means of political participation in a democracy.
What is true?
200
This 1976 case challenged the constitutionality of the Federal Election Campaign Act, where the Supreme Court declared that limiting an individual's contributions to their own campaign is a violation of free speech.
What is Buckley v. Valeo?
300
The science of population change
What is demography?
300
The phenomenon that people’s belief often guide what they pay the most attention to and how they interpret events
What is selective perception?
300
Theory of voting according to which voters essentially make their decision based on their answers to the question “what have you done for me lately”
What is retrospective voting?
300
Random sampling operates based on the idea that everyone should have an equal probability of being selected.
What is true?
300
This technique used by pollsters has decreased in use and popularity due to the legal issues and financial costs of contacting cell phones
What is random digit calling?
400
Public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision
What are exit polls
400
Independent political groups that are not subject to contribution restrictions because they do not directly seek the election of particular candidates. A specific section of the tax code specifies that contribution to such groups must be reported to the IRS
What are 527 Groups?
400
Requires citizens proposing a law to gain signatures equal to 10% of the number of voters in the previous election
What is an initiative petition?
400
The intention of front-loading is to avoid media attention and publicity, allowing candidates to give their honest opinions on issues
What is false?
400
another term/phrase that refers to America's "melting pot"
What is "garden salad"?
500
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census
What is reapportionment?
500
The commission formed at the 1968 Democratic Convention in response to demands for reform by minority groups and others who sought better representation
What is McGovern-Fraser Commission?
500
The idea that the winning candidate has a mandate from the people to carry out his or her platforms and politics
What is mandate theory of elections?
500
This plan splits each state's electoral votes in accordance with their popular vote percentages.
That is the Proportional Allocation Plan?
500
The number of members on the Federal Election Commission?