Activities designed to influence government voting and face-to-face activities such as protesting or volunteering for a campaign.
What is traditional political participation?
100
A political system in which only two parties have a realistic opportunity to compete effectively for control.
What is a two-party system?
100
Individuals who organize to influence the government's programs and policies.
What is an interest group?
100
Getting voter turnout
What is mobilization?
100
Party ID is a "short cut" to making decisions: therefore if a voter has little information about the election they can vote in accordance to their party.
What is a benefit to party ID on ballots?
200
Voting, Campaign Activity, Contact Activity, and Communal Activity.
What are the most conventional forms of political participation?
200
divided government
What is the term for the condition in American government wherein the presidency is controlled by one party while the opposing party controls one or both houses of congress.
200
AARP
What is the large interest group that caters to senior citizens?
200
Benefits, sought by groups that are broadly available and cannot be denied to nonmembers.
What are collective goods?
200
A method of voting by which an individual considers factors from the past to influence how they are going to vote. Ex. debates and presidential campaigns.
What is retrospective voting?
300
online political participation
What are activities designed to influence government using the Internet, including visiting a candidate's website, organizing events online, or signing an online petition?
300
the division between the two major parties on most policy issues, with members of each party unified around their party's positions with little crossover.
What is party polarization?
300
Those who enjoy the benefits of collective goods but did not participate in acquiring them.
What are free riders?
300
A loose network of elected leaders, public officials, activist, and interest groups drawn together by a specific policy issue.
What is an issue network?
300
The idea that groups form in response to events that create threats or opportunities for the members of a group.
What is disturbance theory?
400
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
What did the Sixth Amendment do?
400
A national party political institution that nominates the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates, establishes party rules, and writes and ratifies the party platform.
What is the national convention?
400
Lobbying
What is the strategy by which organized interest seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on member of the legislature.
400
institutional advertising
What is the advertising designed to create a positive image of an organization?
400
Partisans who contribute time, energy, and effort to support their party and its candidates.
What are party activist?
500
The option in some states to register on the day of the election, at the polling place, rather than in advance of the election?
What is Election-Day registration?
500
527 committees
What is an independent, nonprofit group that receives and disburses funds to influence election campaigns is called?
500
The stable, cooperative relationship that often develops among a congressional committee, an administrative agency, and one or more supportive interest groups.
What is the iron triangle?
500
A lobbying campaign in which a group mobilizes its membership to contact government officials in support of the group's position.
What is grassroots mobilization?
500
Nomination
What is the process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office?