Voting/Political Campaigns
This is an organization that raises money to elect and defeat candidates and may donate money directly to a candidate's campaign, subject to limits.
What is a Political Action Committee (PAC)?
This is the role of political parties.
What is to recruit, nominate, and support candidates for office?
In this document, James Madison argued that factions present a danger to society, claiming that a diverse republic with many perspectives represented would prevent tyranny of the majority.
What is Federalist no. 10?
In the 21st century, people have become more likely to discover their news from _________, and less likely to find out information from ______________.
What is smartphones/social media, and TV/radio/newspapers?
This is an example of a linkage institution, something that connects individuals with the government.
What are political parties, interest groups, the media, and/or elections?
(Name 2) These demographic factors influence whether a person will vote.
What are age, income, and educational attainment?
In the 1960s, white southern voters made this political change.
What is shifting away from the Democratic party and towards the Republican party (realignment)?
This is how interest groups can influence elections.
What is endorsing candidates and forming PACs to contribute to their campaigns?
When news outlets focus on who is winning an election, rather than on substantial issues such as policies.
The two most notable third parties in the U.S.
What are the Green and Libertarian parties?
These 3 Amendments extended the right to vote to women, African Americans, and 18 year olds.
What are the 19th, 15th, and 26th Amendments?
In the U.S., we have a two-party system due to this voting rule which only allows the person with the most votes to win an election.
What is winner takes all or first past the post?
This is how interest groups differ from social movements.
What is interest groups are typically structured in a hierarchical way and have group organizational structures, whereas social movements are mass groups of people who believe in similar values?
According to this 1966 Act, the public is able to inspect all government records with a few exceptions, like military/intelligence secrets, personnel files, or trade secrets.
What is FOIA/the Freedom of Information Act?
This was the ruling in Citizens United v. United States (2010).
What is the idea that corporations and labor unions are people, according to the law, and that spending money is a legitimate form of free speech?
This is a reason that U.S. voter turnout tends to be lower than in other democracies.
What are voter registration requirements, the timing of election day, and the process of obtaining an absentee ballot?
Partisanship tends to increase during a period of ___________, which occurs when different branches of the government have different political parties in power.
What is divided government?
What are direct, grassroots, and/or coalition?
President FDR personalized the power of radio, leading these addresses during the Depression and WWII to inform and connect with citizens.
What are Fireside Chats?
This theory states that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
What is Keynesianism?
These are the two states with the earliest primaries/elections, "frontloading" their elections so their citizens have more influence on which candidates progress.
What are Iowa and New Hampshire?
At one of these, delegates elected in primaries, caucuses, or state conventions assemble once every 4 years to nominate candidates for president and vice president, as well as to handle other party business.
What is a national convention?
This is how interest groups use laws and the courts to their advantage.
What is interest groups can sue government agencies to attempt to block actions, or to force them to enforce laws?
Critics argue that the media's power to do this limits political discourse, since media corporations have the power to decide which public policy questions may be debated or considered.
What is agenda-setting?
This translates to "friend of the court," and is someone who is not party to a case, but offers relevant information or expertise in the case.
What is amicus curiae?