Public Opinion
Elections
Political Parties
Interest Groups
Potpourri
100
The set of underlying orientations, ideas, and beliefs through which people understand and interpret politics
What is political ideology?
100
A type of electoral system in which victory goes to the individual who gets the most votes in an election, but not necessarily a majority of the votes cast
What is plurality rule?
100
The primary goal of political parties
What is getting candidates elected?
100
The theory that all interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the government
What is pluralism?
100
The people who accurately predicted the outcome of Tuesday's election
Who are political scientists?
200
The two levels of public opinion
What are individual and aggregate?
200
An electoral format that presents the names of all the candidates for any given office on the same ballot
What is the Australian ballot?
200
Two ways in which parties can nominate candidates
What are conventions and primaries?
200
The socioeconomic group that is more likely to belong to interest groups (lower/upper class)
What is the upper class?
200
The characteristics of the US electoral system that reinforce a two-party system
What are single-member plurality districts?
300
The process of learning the underlying beliefs and values on which the political system is based
What is political socialization?
300
The problem of not knowing all aspects of the actions taken by an agent
What is moral hazard?
300
The two functions of parties (as emphasized by Dr. Bakker)
What are interest aggregation and interest articulation?
300
The three components interest groups need to be successful
What are money, leadership and members?
300
The party that holds many of the same views as the Republicans, but takes a more conservative stance
What is the Constitution Party?
400
The three media effects
What are agenda-setting, priming, and framing?
400
The problem of incomplete information - choosing alternatives without fully knowing the details of available options
What is adverse selection?
400
A major shift in the positions or composition of the two major parties; the move from one party system to another
What is realignment?
400
Benefits provided only to group members to entice members to join and contribute
What are selective benefits?
400
The party that is generally socially liberal but fiscally conservative
What is the Libertarian Party?
500
The failure to identify the true distribution of opinion within a population because of errors such as ambiguous or poorly worded questions.
What is measurement error?
500
Three forms of direct democracy that exist in some US states
What are referendum, initiative, and recall?
500
The group that formed the Democrats under the 5th Party System; consisted of the South, African Americans, Union members, Catholics, and Jews
What is the New Deal Coalition?
500
The logical choice in a prisoner's dilemma
What is snitch?
500
They type of issue where voters are more concerned about how it is handled than the specific outcome that is achieved
What is a spatial issue?