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Easy Category "trust me"
Idk if you're ready to handle level 2
THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF
Words that start with CONSONANTS
Just stop trying...
100
Those "POWERS" that Congress and the president need in order to get the job done right. Although not specified in the Constitution, they are reasonable powers that are a logical part of the powers delegated to Congress and the president.
Inherent Powers
100
True or False.... Is a "caucus" a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election???? Think about this carefully <3
It's false...If you got it right CONGRATS, if you didn't just sit down *insert face palm here* Caucus is a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy.
100
Attempting to influence decisions made by officials in a government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.
Lobbying
100
Social work directly concerned with individuals, especially that involving a study of a person's family history and personal circumstances.
Casework
100
An approach that separates itself from direct lobbying through the act of asking the general public to contact legislators and government officials concerning the issue at hand, as opposed to conveying the message to the legislators directly.
Grass root lobbying
200
Independent political committees that support a candidate with unlimited, often anonymous, donations from companies, unions, or individuals. The groups can't contribute directly to a candidate, but they can run favorable ads about a candidate—or negative ones about their favored candidate's opponent
Super PAC
200
DOUBLE POINTS Define Interest Group....
A group, however loosely or tightly organized, that is determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected.
200
Political JOURNALISM of elections that resembles coverage of HORSE RACEs because of the focus on polling data, public perception instead of candidate policy, and almost exclusive reporting on candidate differences rather than similarities.
Horse Race Journalism .... so many clues in that one I swear.
200
DOUBLE POINTS Name these two terms 1.) The name given to certain appellate proceedings for re-examination of actions of a trial court, or inferior appeals court. 2.) Discrepancy in opportunities, status, attitudes, etc., between men and women.
1.) Writ of certiorari 2.) Gender Gap
200
Recognition and affirmation of diversity within a political body, which permits the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles.
Pluarlism
300
The government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district. The usage originated in American English. In election campaigns, the term is used in derogatory fashion to attack opponents.
Pork Barreling
300
The means by which a government adjusts its spending levels and tax rates to monitor and influence a nation's economy. It is the sister strategy to monetary POLICY through which a central bank influences a nation's money supply.
Fiscal Policy
300
Used to help or hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, or class group, such as in U.S. federal voting district boundaries that produce a majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities, known as "majority-minority districts."
GERRYMANDERING
300
Elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the PERIOD "lol period" between an election defeat and a successor's assumption of office. a president who is completing a term of office and chooses not to run or is ineligible to run for reelection.
Lame Duck Period
300
Is a legislative maneuver that allows a president or other official with veto power to exercise that power over a bill by taking no action (instead of affirmatively vetoing it).
Pocket Veto
400
SUDDEN DEATH Primary election in which voters are not required to declare party affiliation.
Open Primary
400
Political Action Committee
PAC
400
Practice of exchanging favors, especially in politics by reciprocal voting for each other's proposed legislation.
Logrolling
400
SUDDEN DEATH 1.)Process by which people form their ideas about politics. 2.)System based upon democratic rules and institutions in which the power to govern is shared between national and provincial/state governments. 3.)Personal assistants to the president, typically a chief of staff. Others include counselors to the president; domestic, foreign, and economic policy strategists; communications staff; White House counsel; and a lobbyist who acts as a liaison between the president and Congress.
Political Socialization Federalism White House Staff
400
SUDDEN DEATH An alliance of various interest groups and individuals who unite in order to promote a single issue in government policy.
Issue Network
500
An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.
Filibuster
500
DOUBLE POINTS Current holder of a political office
Incumbent
500
Someone who is not a party to a case and offers information that bears on the case, but who has not been solicited by any of the parties to assist a court.
Amicus Curiae
500
A concept of FEDERALISM in which national, state, and local governments interact COOPERATIVELY and collectively to solve common problems, rather than making policies separately but more or less equally
Cooperative Federalism
500
Refers to national elections in which there are sharp changes in issues that produce new structures that lasts for decades.
Realignment