Civil Liberties
Legal and constitutional protections against government infringement of personal and criminal rights
What are civil liberties?
An event staged primarily for the purpose of being covered
What is a media event?
Implements public policy on a federal, state, and local level
What is a bureaucracy?
The concept of equal treatment under the law
What is civil rights?
A form of political participation designed to change policy through unconventional tactics
What is protest?
Legal concept under which the Supreme Court has nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states through the 14th Amendment
What is the incorporation doctrine?
Formal presidential meetings with reporters
What is a press conference?
The authority of some administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem
What is administrative discretion?
This amendment to the Constitution extended voting rights to black males
What is the 15th Amendment?
The distribution of the population's beliefs about policies and issues
What is public opinion?
The part of the 1st Amendment that prohibits the government from creating a national church or endorsing one religion over another
What is the establishment clause?
A portion of a speech aired on TV for fifteen seconds or less
What is a sound bite?
Executive agencies which are not Cabinet departments, regulatory agencies, or government corporations
What are independent executive agencies?
Passed in 1965, it was designed to reduce barriers to voting for those suffering discrimination
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A poll taken at randomly selected polling places after citizens have placed their votes
What is an exit poll?
This 5th Amendment right means you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself
What is self-incrimination?
This occurs when the media descend on a story as a mass and continue reporting on it for days on end
What is a feeding frenzy?
The withdrawal of the use of government authority to control or change some practice in the private sector
What is deregulation?
Equal pay for equal work
What is comparable worth?
A polling technique which is based on the principle that everyone has an equal probability of being selected as part of a poll
What is random sampling?
This due process concept means that laws themselves must not be discriminatory
What is substantive due process?
Strategy of some broadcast channels to appeal to a smaller, more defined audience rather than a broader, mass audience
What is narrowcasting?
Detailed rules written to cover as many particular situations as officials can anticipate to help bureaucrats implement policies uniformly
What are standard operating procedures?
Passed in 1964, it forbids discrimination in public accommodations and facilities
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The level of confidence involved in a poll
What is sampling error?