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What is the difference between a social movement and Interest group?
Interest groups are associations of people who work for a common interest while social movements are groups that put pressure on policymakers in an effort to bring societal change
Describe a policy that is most likely to cause tension between the competing values of equality of opportunity and limited government
Mandating that all public schools have English language programs
What was the ruling in Citizens United v Federal election commission?
Limited how much money a PAC can contribute to a candidate
Theory that voters associate certain issues or positions on issues with certain parties
Issue Ownership
Federalists lost many seats because of their opposition to this war and their support of unpopular pay raise for congress
war of 1812
Interest groups that can raise money to contribute to campaigns or spend in support of candidates
Political Action Committees
What governmental policy will cause tension between the competing values of individualism and rule of law?
Criminalizing the use of recreational drugs like marijuana
A local meeting in which party members select a party’s nominee for the general election
Caucus
Meeting held by each party every four years in which states’ delegates select the party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees and approve the party platform
Nominating Convention
meeting of parties throughout the year in order to devise strategies for legislative action
agenda setting
Effect on public opinion when many citizens move away from moderate positions and toward either end of the political spectrum, identifying themselves as liberal or conservative
Ideological Polarization
What are the 4 interest group tactics?
Economic interest groups, public interest groups, single-issue groups, and government interest groups
structure of the national, state, and local parties including leaders and workers
Party Organization
Organizations that run candidates for office and coordinate the actions of officials elected under the party banner
Political parties
The level of public support for expanding the government’s role in society and determines whether the public wants government action on a specific issue
Policy Mood
Channels that connect individuals with the government including elections, interest groups, political parties and the media
Linkage Institutions
What are the demographic characteristics that influence how individuals tend to vote and whether they identify with a political party?
age, race, gender, religion, marital status, occupation, education level, etc…
voting for all candidates from different parties in the same election
split ticket voting
What is the principle that in a democracy with single member distritcts and plurality voting, only 2 party’s candidates will have a realistic chance of winning
Duverger’s Law
What is the use of telephone numbers randomly generated by a computer to reach potential survey participants known as?
random digit dialing
What policy can cause tension between the competing values of free enterprise and rule of law?
A bill proposing that large corporations can purchase carbon offsets in order to exceed EPA limits on pollution
Representative poll of randomly selected respondents with a statistically significant sample size using neutral language
Scientific poll
process by which people’s political opinions are shaped by other people and surrounding culture; begins with parents and includes various ideologies and race,class, ethnic identity, etc
Political Socialization
which poll uses a survey that is taken to gage support
benchmark poll
what is the difference between solidary benefits and purposive benefits?
solidary-satisfaction of working with like minded people Purposive-satisfaction from working toward policy goal