The Media
The disclosure of confidential information to the news media.
What is a leak?
The electors from each state who meet after the popular election to cast ballots for president and vice president
What is the Electoral College.
A contributory welfare program into which working Americans contribute a percentage of their wages and from which they receive cash benefits after retirement or if they become disabled
The representation of a government to foreign governments
A small group selected by researchers to represent the most important characteristics of an entire population.
What is a sample?
A structure within a society that connects the people to the government or centralized authority.
What is a linkage institution.
The process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office.
What is nomination?
The government's use of taxing, monetary, and spending powers to manipulate the economy.
What is fiscal policy?
The effort to forestall war by giving in to the demands of a hostile power.
What is appeasement?
A polling technique in which the questions are designed to shape the respondent's opinion.
What is push polling?
Process of preparing the public to take a particular view of an event or political actor.
What is priming?
A procedure to allow voters to remove state officials from office before their terms expire by circulating petitions to call a vote.
What is a recall?
Periodic process of adjusting of social benefits or wages to account for increases in the cost of living
What is indexing?
An institution established in 1944 that provides loans and facilitates international monetary exchange
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
Basic principles that shape a person's opinions about political issues and events.
What are values?
Information leaked to the media to test public reaction to a possible policy.
What is a trial balloon?
Lowered the maximum voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Government subsidies provided to employers and employees through tax deductions for amounts spent on health insurance and other benefits
Tax expenditures
Policy of striking first when a nation fears that a foreign foe is contemplating hostile action.
What is a preventative war?
The effect that results when respondents in a survey report what they expect the interviewer wishes to hear rather than what they believe
What is the social desirability effect.
The power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems.
What is agenda setting?
A candidate running for re-election to a position that he or she already holds.
What is an incumbent?
Noncash goods and services provided to needy individuals and families by the federal government.
Foreign policy based on the idea that the United States should take preemptive action against threats to its national security
What are the Bush Doctrines?
A widely shared American ideal that all people should have the freedom to use whatever talents and wealth they have to reach their fullest potential