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| The goal is to win offices for material gain and to control distribution of government jobs |
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| The goal is to shape public policy |
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Buckley argued that spending money was akin to free speech and limiting it would abridge First Amendment protections.
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| Elections can be an expression of what? |
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| Andrew Jackson loses to John quincy Adams when Henr4y Clay threw his support to Adams, Adams later named Clay as secretary of state. |
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| Named after 527 of the IRS Code Are allowed to raise unlimited sums of money and are not officially affiliated with a political party |
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| Youth vote turnout in 2008 (voters under 25) |
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| when the executive and a majority of members in both houses of the legislature are of the same political party |
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| when one party controls the white house and another party controls one or both branches of congress |
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| Only registered members of the jparty are allowed to vote in the primary. In some states the voter must declare his or her party registration in advance of the primary election. |
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| Voters are allowed to participate in the privary election without declaring membership in a party. Their is criticizm about some activists in one party voting for the weaker candidate in the other parties primary. |
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| voters pick delegates who pledged their support for a particular presidential candidate. |
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| indentificaio nof a problem and concludes with the analysis of the effectiveness of the solutions applied to that problem. |
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| six steps to the policy process model |
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1. indentifying the ploicy problem
2. setting an agenda
3. formulating a solution
4. legitimizing the solution
5. implementing the solution
6. evaluating the solution |
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| argue our system of open gevernment, with its mulitple pints of acces to policymakers, allows people without resources like money and connectins to still have their voices heard. |
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| argue that policymaking is really driven by elitism - the only people with powr and money will get access to the decision makers. |
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| what are the four access points |
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1. congress
2. supreme court
3. president
4. federal bureaucracy |
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| provides for each elector to cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. It also specifies how a President and Vice President are elected |
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| Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues. (DP and EP) |
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| Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| Establishes women's suffrage |
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| Government + Politics = ? |
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| what are the three main types of public policies |
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1. distribution
2. regulation
3. redistribution |
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| problems, solutions and political factors (such as elections and interest group campaigns) as three separate streams that flow at the same time but often do not merge with one another. |
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| traditionally, the right of citizens to veto legislation |
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| a process whereby advocates of an issue collect signatures to have an initiative put on the ballot for electins day (prop 8, prop 19) |
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| Citizens can vote an officeholder out of office before the next regularly sheduled election. (schwarzenegger) |
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single meber district
first past the post system
electoral college
ballot access laws |
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