Who is responsible for keeping the party running between elections and sets the rules for the part? The party in the...
Electorate, Organization, Government, State, White House
The party in organization
100
What event ended the cozy relationship that existed between the media and government?
Vietnam War and Watergate
100
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups competing for prefered policies
Hyperpluralism
100
Media programing on cable TV or the Internet and aimed at a particular audience
Narrowcasting
100
A court order requiring jailers to explain to a judge why they are holding a person in custody
Writ of habeas corpus
200
Winning candidates who become the main spokespersons for the party that nominated them are from the party in the...
Electorate, Organization, Government, State, White House
The party in government
200
This rule stipulates that if a station sells advertising time to one candidate, it must be willing to sell equal time to other candidates for the same office
Public Interest Rule
200
A theory of government and politics contending that societies are divided among classes and that an upper class elite rules
Elitism
200
Groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over four-fifths of the nation's daily newspaper circulation
Chains
200
A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government
Cooperative federalism
300
Who is responsible for creating the party platform?
National convention
300
Journalists and politicians have a ____ relationship, with politicians relying on journalists to get their message out and journalists relying on politicians to keep them in the know
Symbiotic
300
Written arguments submitted to the courts in support of one side of a case
Amicus Curiae Briefs
300
An electoral system that awards legislative seats to political parties on the basises of the number of votes won in an election
Proportional representation
300
The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every ten years on the basis of the results of the census
Reapportionment
400
A group of individuals with a common interest on which every political party depends
Coalition
400
Due to this new type of journalism, politicians are often able to avoid talking about issues in depth
Sound bite journalism
400
Interest groups that are concerned with wages, prices, and profit
Economic interest groups
400
Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member
Collective good
400
A form of political participation based on a conscious decision to break a law believed to be unjust and to suffer the consequences
Civil disobedience
500
His southern strategy was aimed at turning more southerns to the Republican Party
Richard Nixon
500
This hypothesis states that the media has a marginal effect on public opinion
"Minimal effects hypothesis"
500
These laws outlaw union shops
Right-to-work laws
500
Lobbies whose work is to achieve a collective good and not to benefit activists of the organization
Public interest lobbies
500
A state-level method of direct legislation that gives voters a chance to approve or disapprove proposed legislation or proposed constitutional amendments