Voting Rights
This amendment guarantees African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Condition where voters grow tired of all candidates by the time Election Day arrives
What is voter fatigue?
an organization that raises money privately to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level.
What are political action committees?
The process by which we develop our political values and opinions.
What is political socialization?
This party has more conservative ideological values overall.
What are the Republicans?
Voting based on what is perceived to be in the citizen’s individual interest
What is Rational-Choice theory?
This amendment allows for only two terms for the President.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Advocacy groups use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and ultimately policy.
What are interest groups?
A child holding up a 'stop being mean, Trump' sign at a rally is an example of this.
What are family influences?
This party has more liberal ideological values overall.
What are the democrats?
This amendment changed how we choose senators, allowing the people to vote for them instead of their state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This system causes the states to vote for the President by selecting who gets their votes via who wins the majority of the vote in that state.
What is the Electoral college? (also 'winner take all')
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for its preferred policies, compete and counterbalance one another in the political marketplace
What is pluralism?
This political philosopher observed the core values of Americanism, taking away that despite any economic inequality: all Americans are equal politically.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
These parties focus on a particular set of ideas about how to change society as a whole.
What are ideological third parties?
Prevents States from discriminating against people voting. Extends the 15th Amendment to the states.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
These states are neither one party or the other. They often determine elections.
What are swing states?
When the ups and downs of political contests between candidates are often more dramatic than policy debates, so the media focuses more on the former than the latter.
What is horse race journalism?
This indicates that Americans believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.
What is individualism?
An economic philosophy that encourages government spending (through the creation of jobs or the distribution of unemployment benefits) in order to promote economic growth.
What is Keynesian economics?
This Amendment outlawed Poll Taxes.
What is the 24th Amendment?
A meeting of party members held to select delegates to the national convention
What is a caucus?
A comprehensive federal law that is an effort to ban ‘soft money’ and attack ads.
What is the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002?
This myth assumes that a part of our population does not vote due to laziness and uneducated tendencies.
Public policy related to health care, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor.
What is social policy?