The Media
The tendency of news consumers to gravitate toward information that confirms their beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
(Selective Exposure is also acceptable)
This sector has the largest number of lobbyists.
What is business?
One disadvantage of the two-party system.
What is restricts voter choice; slow to change; or encourages party polarization?
Significant and enduring shifts in party loyalties; an example of this is when the parties switched in the 1960-1970's.
The current era of media.
What is the era of infotainment?
This event prompted the era of Watchdog Journalism.
What is Watergate?
Someone who reaps benefits without contributing to collective action.
What is a free-rider?
The three separate levels/groups in a political party.
What is the party organization, the party in government, and the party in the electorate?
An election marked by significant shifts in voting patterns; an election that solidifies realignments.
What is a critical election?
This is when professional standards and credibility became more important to the media in the US.
What is the beginning of the 20th century/early 1900's?
The reason newspapers would engage in yellow journalism.
What is selling more papers?
The main activity of lobbyists.
What is provide information?
The reason we have two political parties.
What is Duverger's law?
This group is most likely to view Texas's government as a good model for other states to follow.
Who are Republicans?
Define a right-to-work state.
What is a state with laws that prohibit employers from requiring union membership?
The three factors/characteristics that affect media persuasiveness.
What are source characteristics, media characteristics, and audience characteristics?
The three types of benefits people get from being in an interest group.
What are solidary, purposive, and material benefits?
The first two steps in a responsible party model.
What is parties present their party platform/program and candidates pledge to support the party program?
This event/act prompted the realignment in the 1960's?
What is LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act?
This is how we could change our single-member plurality system to allow for a viable third party.
What is adopt multi-member districts?
Give one of the main points from the code of ethics.
What is seek truth and report it; minimize harm; act independently; or be accountable
A group that faces little regulation and are not allowed to coordinate their activities with a specific candidate or political party.
What is a 527 organization?
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883?
The three main ways people of color were prevented from voting despite being legally allowed to vote.
What are poll taxes, the grandfather clause, and literacy tests?
This is the step of the responsible government model that fails in real life
What is "candidates conform to their party's platforms"