Interest Groups
Interest groups fill this really important policymaking role and is step number two on the policymaking system
Linkage institution
This independent regulatory committee has a lot of control over the broadcast and radio airwaves in the US.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
The goal of this general organization is to get like minded men and women elected in order to control public policy
Political party
An election that seeks to select a nominee for office that will move on to the final (general) election later in the election year.
Primary election
An early form of SuperPACs, this advocacy group lacks the ability to directly advocate for or against a particular candidate
527 group
Theory that argues many interests brings active representation to all and that the most beneficial policy will be established.
Pluralist Theory (pluralism)
Fill in the blank: "_______________ is the fuel for democracy." This would be a good mantra to explain the role of the media in American society.
Information
This political party gets one of its nicknames from the 16th President of the United States...one of its founding members.
Republican Party
This independent regulatory agency administers federal election laws
Federal Election Commission
States that tend to vote a certain ideological direction every election.
Safe states
These are groups that focus on a narrow interest. Examples include the National Rifle Association, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Sierra Club.
Single-issue groups
The media fulfills the role of ensuring politicians do what they are supposed to do, sometimes using investigative journalism for this purpose. This concept gets its name from an animal that tends to guard property.
Watchdog
African Americans switched from voting republican to voting democrat in a critical election which elected this president who promised the nation a new deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Advocacy group can donate $5,000 per election directly to federal candidates.
Political Action Committee (PAC)
An election in which only registered members of a political party may vote in that party's election to select the party's candidate.
Closed primary
Interest groups work triangularly with these other entities to shape policy
Congress and the bureaucracy
The first presidential debate shown on television was between these two candidates
John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon
This ideology resides on the bottom half of a four quadrant political compass; the further down you go the more anarchical it gets.
Libertarianism
An elector within the electoral college who does what is expected of them uses which model of representation?
Delegate
Participants gather in a room and attempt to convince each other that their candidate is the best choice during this form of initial election
Caucus
Interest groups try to shape policy by using lobbying, litigation, going public, and by using this technique made famous by Citizens United in 2008.
Electioneering
This concept explains how and why people tend to choose what kind of information they receive and from which source they receive it.
Selective exposure
These two "parties" can be seen as the first two political parties in American history
Federalists and Anti-federalists
Constitutional amendment that ensured Washington D.C. would receive a state minimum of three electoral votes during presidential elections.
23rd
These two numbers represent the current total number of electoral votes available during a presidential election and the minimum needed to win the election.
538 and 270