Political Parties
This is one of the two political parties in the United States
Republicans or Democrats
This means how we come upon our political beliefs
Political socialization
This group seeks to achieve specific policy goals by influencing decision making
Interest Group
The first "constitution" was called ____
The Articles of Confederation
Our Congress is ____ which means that it has two chambers
Bicameral
When one party controls both chambers of Congress and the Presidency we have a ____ government
Unified
Name one of the five main agents of political socialization
Family, religious institutions, schools, media, peers/group norms/influencers
This political scientist argued for what is called "social capital"
Robert Putnam
This was one of the issues facing the Founders in the Constitution
Representation and the inclusion of the Bill of Rights
This court case broke separate but equal in schools
Brown v. Board of Education
This US president is associated with the rise of the Republicans in 1860 as an antislavery party
Abraham Lincoln
This is a correlate of political opinions whereby those from older generations have different political opinions than those younger
Age
The linkage between the member of Congress, the lobbyists in the interest group, and the bureaucracy is called a ____
Iron triangle
Louis Brandeis referred to states as _____ of democracy
laboratories
These laws made it more difficult for freed slaves to vote
Jim Crow laws
This event in the 1930s to 1940s began a period of the parties pushing apart on government involvement in the economy
the New Deal
This is a sampling technique where you select people at random to be in your sample
Random sampling
The political arm of interest groups who seek to influence politics and swing elections is called ___
PACs (political action committees)
This landmark legislation regulated that buildings must be accessible to individuals with disabilities
The Americans with Disabilities Act
What is the title of the textbook
American Democracy Now
The idea that parties need to offer a clearly different platform from each other is called the ____party model
Responsible
These polls measure attitudes over the course of time
Tracking polls
This court case held that limiting PAC or corporation spending on politics represented a limit to free speech - permitted PACs and corporations to spend limitlessly
Citizens United v. FEC
Name one of the Bill of Rights Amendments
Bear Arms
Quartering
etc.
What is the name of the French author I discuss a lot in here
Alexis de Tocqueville