Show:
Misc.
Roles of Government
Political Parties and Agreements
Nominating Process
Voters and Voting Behavior
100
The smallest unit of election administrators; a voting district.
What is a Precinct?
100
Believes that the proper role of government is to moderately regulate social beliefs and economy.
What is Centrist?
100
The party that has control over the executive branch of government.
What is Party in Power?
100
This is someone who has already served in the office they are running for and are trying to get re-elected.
What is an incumbent candidate?
100
This is the right to vote in elections.
What is franchise?
200
The process of drawing of electoral district lines to the advantage of a party or group.
What is Gerrymandering?
200
Believes that the proper role of government is to dictate people's decisions socially.
What is Authoritarian?
200
These groups of people seek to control government through the winning of elections and the holding of political office.
What are Political Parties?
200
This is a group of people who meet to select the candidates they will support in an upcoming election.
What is caucus?
200
This is all of the people entitled to vote in a given election.
What is an electorate?
300
Means by which communication reaching large audiences, especially T.V., radio, printed publication and the internet.
What is Mass Media?
300
Believes that the proper role of government is to not regulate the economy; self regulation.
What is Conservative?
300
A general agreement among various groups on fundamental matters; broad agreement on public questions.
What is a Consensus?
300
THis is a party's nominating election in which only declared party members can vote.
What is a closed primary?
300
This is a personal living in a state for only a short time, without legal residence.
What is a transient?
400
Process of asking the same question of a large number of people to read people's minds.
What is Straw Vote?
400
Believes that the proper role of government is to not dictate socially beliefs.
What is Libertarian?
400
The number of votes that the leading candidate obtains over the next highest candidate in an election.
What is Plurality?
400
This is a nominating election in which any qualified voter can cast a ballot.
What is an open primary?
400
This is a process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions.
What is political socialization?
500
A sample deliberately constructed to reflect several of the major characteristics of a given population.
What is Quota Sample?
500
Believes the proper role of government is to regulate the economy.
What is Liberal?
500
A temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority to control a government.
What is a Coalition?
500
This is a party that is based on a particular set of beliefs such as a comprehensive view on social, economic, and political matters.
What is the ideological party?
500
This is a process of reviewing lists of registered voters and removing the names of those who are no longer eligible to vote; a purification.
What is a purge?