A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government. They may also share costs, administration, and even blame for programs that work poorly.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
100
a system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials
What is Bureaucracy
100
the master game plan candidates lay out to guide their electoral campaign
What is Campaign Strategy?
100
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
100
Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and other means of popular communication.
What is Mass Media?
200
A system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies.
What is Dual Federalism?
200
when two or more parties join together to form a majority in a national legislature. This form of government is quite common in multiparty systems of Europe.
What is Coalition Government?
200
any advertising message sent directly to customers via the mail
What is Direct Mail?
200
Passed in 1951, this limits presidents to two terms of office.
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment
200
Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House. Most top reporters work a particular this, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on at that location.
What is Beats?
300
The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system; it is the cornerstone of the national government's relations with state and local governments.
What is Fiscal Federalism?
300
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
What is Democracy?
300
The recent tendency of states to hold primaries early in the calendar in order to capitalize on media attention.
Example: Abut two-thirds of both democratic and republican delegates were chosen within six weeks of the Iowa caucus in 2008
What is Frontloading?
300
the constitutional amendment passed in 1964 that declared poll taxes void in federal elections.
What is the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
300
The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, which at times puts reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders.
What is Investigative Journalism?
400
A way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people. It is a system of shared power between units of government.
What is Federalism?
400
an economic system based on open competition in a free market, in which individuals and companies own the means of production and operate for profit
What is Capitalism?
400
A proposal by critics of the caucuses and presidential primaries, which would replace these electoral methods with a nationwide primary held early in the election year.
What is National Primary?
400
Passed in 1967, this permits the vice president to become acting president of both the vice president and the presidents cabinet determine that the president is disabled. This also outlines how a recuperated president can reclaim the job.
What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
500
Layer Cake Federalism
What is Dual Federalism?
500
the governing body of a nation, state, or community.
What is Government?
500
A political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years
Example: The 1948 United States Democratic Party's platform including civil rights
What is Party Platform?
500
the constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
500
Newspapers and magazines, as compared with broadcast media.