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| What is a political party? |
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| An organization that sponsors people to run for office. |
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| What are the four political functions of a political party? |
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| Direct power struggle, direct campaign and candidates, a source of public policy, and act as check on majority party. |
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| What are the two social functions of a political party? |
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| Educate electorate, form of personal identity. |
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| What is the difference between ideology and parties? |
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| Ideology = set of values and Parties = organization that reflects values. |
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| What are the four main ideologies? |
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| liberal, conservative, libertarian, and communitarian. |
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| What do liberals prioritize? |
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| Equality over freedom; freedom over order. |
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| What do conservatives prioritize? |
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| Freedom over equality; order over freedom. |
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| What do liberatarians prioritize? |
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| Freedom over order and equality. |
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| What do communitarians prioritize? |
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| Equality over freedom and order. |
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| Why do we have weak parties? |
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| Founding fathers did want political parties, structure of the constitution led to poltical parties (checks and balances, electoral college, majority votes) |
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| Electorally must have broad appeal and moderate. No formal ability to sanction members. (Interest groups get power) |
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| Three reasons why American politics are dominated by two parties. |
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| Political socialization (history of 2 paarties); Electoral rules (campaign finance of 5% and winner take all); and Media practices (horse race journalism, focus on who is winning) |
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| What is a nomination convention? |
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| Formal caucus bound by a number of rules that govern participation and nominating procedures. Meetings of delegates elected by party members. Delegates are chosen by party members on state-by-state basis. |
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| What is a political caucus? |
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| A normally closed meeting of a political or legislative group to select candidates, plan strategy, or make decisions regarding legislative matters. |
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| A party that organizes to compete against the two major American political parties. |
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| What is a single-member district? |
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| An electorate that is allowed to elect only one representative from each district - typical. |
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| What is a multiple-member district? |
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| An electorate that selects several candidates at large from an entire district, with each voter given the number of votes equalivalent to the number of seats to be filled. |
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| What are the relevance of political parties? |
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| Elites are partisan, speaker chosen by majority party, committees set up by party, party id is important in voting, elites can persuade electorate to be more partisan. |
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| What is an interest group? |
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| An organized group of individuals or organizations that make policy-related appeals to government. |
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| An organization that sponsors people to run for office. |
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| Equality over freedom; freedom over order. |
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| Freedom over equality; order over freedom. |
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| Freedom over order and equality. |
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| Equality over freedom and order. |
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| Formal caucus bound by a number of rules that govern participation and nominating procedures. Meetings of delegates elected by party members. Delegates are chosen by party members on state-by-state basis. |
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| An electorate that is allowed to elect only one representative from each district - typical. |
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| An electorate that selects several candidates at large from an entire district, with each voter given the number of votes equalivalent to the number of seats to be filled. |
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| Multiple member district. |
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| A party that organizes to compete against the two major American political parties. |
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| A normally closed meeting of a political or legislative group to select candidates, plan strategy, or make decisions regarding legislative matters. |
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| An organized group of individuals or organizations that make policy-related appeals to government. |
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| What are the four types of interest groups? |
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| Public, economic, governmental units, and political action committees (PACS) |
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| What is a public interest group? |
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| EX: PETA. Things that all of us will get from efforts. |
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| EX: PETA. Things that all of us will get from efforts. |
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| What are examples of economic interest groups? |
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| Chamber of commerce, and american medical association. |
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| What interest group is the chamber of commerce and american medical association associated with? |
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| Economic interest groups. |
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| What is an example of governmental units? |
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| State sponsored lobbyists in DC. |
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| What interest group deals with state sponsored lobbyists? |
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| What are examples of PACs? |
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| CocaCola Company Non-Partisan committee and Good Governments Microsoft MSPAC. |
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| Why do interest groups form? |
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| In response to political change or a desire to achieve common goals. |
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| What are examples of interest groups that formed due to a response? |
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| Moveon.org and National Right to life committee (NRLC). |
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| What is a distributed cost? |
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| Individuals share the financial and labor costs of achieving their goals. |
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| Individuals share the financial and labor costs of achieving their goals. |
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| What is an example of a distributed cost? |
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| What are selective benefits? |
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| Benefits for individuals that belong to the group. |
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| Benefits for individuals that belong to the group. |
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| What are the six strategies interest groups use to influence policy? |
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| Go public, lobbying, access (to information), campaign contributions (money buys access), using the courts (suing to get policy decision by courts), and bribery. |
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| Why is money important in politics? |
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| Needed to inform electorate; cost of communication. (As soon as money enters the system we create opportunities for influence and bias). |
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| What are the sources of money for candidates? |
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| Individual donations, PACs, Personal funds, public donations through tax forms, political party committees. |
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| What does the Federal Election Commission (FEC) do? |
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| In charge of enforcing campaign finance rules. |
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| What are the rules of the FEC? |
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| All candidates, campaigns, and groups have to file financial statements. Lobbyists register and undergo training for rules. |
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| What are the rules of campaign funding? |
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| No bribery, no government resources for campaigning, no foreign money, and donation limits (soft and hard money). |
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| Endorses specific candidate. |
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| Endorses specific candidate. |
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| What does BCRA stand for? |
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| Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. |
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| What was the goal of the BCRA? |
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| To reduce the amount of soft money contributions to political parties. |
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| What are the criticisms toward the BCRA? |
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| Led to increase in the influence of independent 527 committees who give large amounts of money in elections through issue advocacy. |
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| The theory that all interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the government. |
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| The theory that all interests are and should be free to compete for influence in the government. |
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| What is the outcome of pluralism? |
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| Competition of compromise and moderation. |
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| What are the four types of selective benefits? |
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| Informational (newsletters, conferences, programs), material (goods, services, money), solidary (friendship, networking), and purposive (purpose and accomplishments). |
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| What are the more effective strategies of interest groups? |
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| Lobbying and campaign contributions. |
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| Tax-excempt organization that engages in political activities, often through unlimited "soft money" contributions. The committee is not restricted by current law on campaign finance, thus exploiting a loophole in the Internal Revenue Service code. |
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| Tax-excempt organization that engages in political activities, often through unlimited "soft money" contributions. The committee is not restricted by current law on campaign finance, thus exploiting a loophole in the Internal Revenue Service code. |
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| How many funds may individuals and PACs contribute to a 527 committee if the funds are used for issue advocacy and not coordinated with a political campaign? |
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| When can individuals and PACs contribute unlimited funds to 527 committees? |
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| When the funds are used for issue advocacy and efforts are not coordinated with political campaign. |
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| How many funds may individuals and PACs contribute to an independent expenditure committee (super PAC) if the money is used for political ads for or against candidates and not coordinated with a political campaign? |
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| When can individuals and PACs give unlimited funds to an independent expenditure committee (super PAC)? |
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| When the money is used for political ads for or against candidates and not coordinated with a political campaign. |
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| How much may individuals give funds to candidates if they are contributing to a single candidate in a single election? |
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| When can individuals give up to 2300 to a candidate? |
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| If they are contributing to a single candidate in a single election. |
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| Private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns. |
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| Private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns. |
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| What are the three types of media? |
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| Print, broadcast, and web. |
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| Television, radio, newspaper, magazines, the internet, and other means of popular communication. |
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| Television, radio, newspaper, magazines, the internet, and other means of popular communication. |
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| What are the primary means of mass media? |
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| Public to know about government and politics, and for government to know what is important to the people. |
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Definition
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| Why is print media important? |
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| Most informative, set agenda for television. |
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| Examples of broadcast media. |
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Definition
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| What is the impact of talk shows? |
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| Mobilizing the conservative base and bringing new items to the mainstream media agenda. |
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Term
| What is the top source of news for most Americans? |
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Definition
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| What is the most informative media? |
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Definition
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| What is the paradox of political knowledge? |
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| More outlets and types of media though to lead to better educated society, but actually means more opportunity to avoid politics. (if not already interested not going to be interested with more outlets) |
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| What are the sources of media power? |
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| Agenda setting, priming, and framing. |
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| The power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems. (What story should be covered?) |
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| The power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems. (What story should be covered?) |
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| The process of preparing the public to take a particular view of an event or a political actor. (What is happening?) |
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| The process of preparing the public to take a particular view of an event or a political actor. (What is happening?) |
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Definition
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| What does the public use priming to do? |
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| Uses issues highlighted by the media to evaluate government. |
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| The power of the media to influence how events and issues are interpreted (How is the story covered?) |
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Term
| The power of the media to influence how events and issues are interpreted (How is the story covered?) |
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Definition
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| What are the three roles of the media? |
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Definition
| Profit seeking, means of government control, and means of citizen control. |
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| What is the profit seeking business in the media? |
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Definition
| Selling advertisement, your time is being sold to someone. Exist to make money. Conflict, drama, and arguments, are more entertaining leads to less information. |
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| The production of more entertainment over information in the media. |
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| The production of more entertainment over information in the media. |
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Definition
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| What is the means of citizen control in the media? |
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| Citizens can use media to hold government responsible, media acts like check on government. (this is why sometimes called fourth branch) |
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| What is the means of governmental power in the media? |
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Definition
| Government tries to influence the media, government uses it to understand public opinion, and to sell messages and create opinions. |
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| What are the two modern threads to democracy through the media? |
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Definition
| Consolidation of the media, and the "for profit" nature. |
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Term
| What is the consolidation of the media. |
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Definition
| Leads to similar viewpoints and coverage on all stories and the potential to emphasize corporate concerns over public concerns. |
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| What is the "for profit" nature of the media? |
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Definition
| Less substance and more emphasize in style and appearance. |
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| What are the two ways to assess ideological bias? |
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Definition
| Corporate owner's ideology and reporter's ideology. |
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| What is the equal time rule? |
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Definition
| The requirement that broadcasters provide candidates for the same political office an equal opportunity to communicate their messages to the public. |
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| The requirement that broadcasters provide candidates for the same political office an equal opportunity to communicate their messages to the public. |
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| What is the fairness doctrine? |
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| An FCC requirement that broadcasters who air programs on controversial issues provide time for opposing views. |
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| An FCC requirement that broadcasters who air programs on controversial issues provide time for opposing views. |
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| What does the FCC stand for? |
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| Federal communications commission. |
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| An effort by a government agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship. (Courts forbid this except under extraordinary circumstances) |
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| An effort by a government agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship. (Courts forbid this except under extraordinary circumstances) |
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| What are the three eras in CA constitutional history? |
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| 1849-1900: Founding era, 1900-1960: Progressive and Populist era, 1960-present: Interest group politics era. |
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| What was the 1849-1900 founding era of california about? |
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| Became state in 1850, wrote its constitution based on other states, scrapped original constitution in 1879. |
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| What was unique about the 1849 california constitution? |
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| Right to vote for all white and naturalized citizens from mexico, and established english and spanish and official languages. |
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| What was the problem with the 1849 california constitution? |
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| Said little about powers of local government, led to widespread corruption by railroad, rancher, and business interests. |
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| What was unique about the 1879 california constitution? |
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| Placed restrictions on legislature to reform problems. |
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| What did the progressive era do for California? |
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| Pioneered concept of aggressively amending the state constitution by initiative. |
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| What was one main goal of the progressive movement? |
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| Purification of government, eliminate corruption by exposing political machines and bosses. |
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| What are the ways progressives changed California? |
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Definition
| Shift toward nonpartisan elections, rise of primary elections, increased direct democracy, initiative, recall. |
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| What explains why Californians vote so frequently? |
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Definition
| The progressive movement. |
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| What similarities exist between the US constitution and the CA constitution. |
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Definition
| seperation of powers, bill or rights, checks and balances (but more offices voted for in CA) |
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| How can the CA constitution be amended? |
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Definition
| Constitutional convention, legislative amendment, or intiative amendment. |
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| How many percent of signatures needed for initiative amendment in california? |
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| What are the three most used forms of direct democracy in California? |
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| Initiative, recall, and referendum. |
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| Gives citizens the power to block the enactment of a law soon after it has been passed. (rarely used) |
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| Gives citizens the power to block the enactment of a law soon after it has been passed. (rarely used) |
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| Allows citizens to use the power of their votes to remove elected leaders from office. |
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| Allows citizens to use the power of their votes to remove elected leaders from office. |
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| Who was removed from office due to recall (who replaced him)? |
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| Gary Davis. Replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
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| Gives citizens the power to enact state laws without the support of the legislature. |
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| Gives citizens the power to enact state laws without the support of the legislature. |
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| What are the two types of initiative? |
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| Initiative statutes, and initiative constitutional amendments. |
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| What is a closed primary? |
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| Only voters who declare a party affiliation can vote in their party primary. |
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| Only voters who declare a party affiliation can vote in their party primary. |
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| Citizens can vote in the party primary of their choice by asking for a ballot for a particular party. |
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| Citizens can vote in the party primary of their choice by asking for a ballot for a particular party. |
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| What is a blanket primary? |
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| One ballot listing all candidates from all parties. |
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| What is the problem with the open and blanket primary? |
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| People can vote strategically not sincerely. |
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| What is the primary process in California? |
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| Two statewide elections in less than 7 months. First open , second top-two. |
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| What is the top two primary? |
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| The top=two overall vote getters, not the top vote-getter from each qualified political party, will move on to the general elections. |
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| What are the issues with the top-two primary? |
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| Will lead to more third parties, but can result in two democrats. |
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| What is the importance of absentee voters? |
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| 45% voters, are very partisan and loyal and shape the elections. |
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| What is unique about the Californian political parties? |
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Definition
| More extreme parties in legislature as well as electorate because of redistricting and safe seats. |
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| Why is there a large third party presence in CA? |
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Definition
| Diverse and large history of disliking central control of two political parties. |
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| What are the four parties qualified to be on the ballot? |
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Definition
| American Independent, green party, libertarian, and peace and freedom party. |
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| What are term limits and their effect in California? |
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Definition
| Increases interest group power. Term limit is to serve a total of 12 years in any chamber total. |
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| What are the main difference between the CA legislature and Congress? |
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Definition
| Term limits, line item veto, elected judges, and majority voting. |
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| What does the line-item veto do for California? |
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| Gives governor power over legislature. |
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Term
| In recent years, much of the content of the news, especially local news, has shifted away from politics and public affairs toward...? |
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| How many members does california have in its senate and assembly? |
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| 40 in senate and 80 in assembly. |
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| What are the characteristics that makes Californian politics unique? |
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Definition
| More cultural diverse, one of the ten largest economies in the world, most populous and fastest growing state, and more majoritarian than other states. |
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| What is the difference between majoritarian and republican? |
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| Majoritarian = direct democracy, Republican = elected official democracy. |
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| The budget must be passed by 2/3 of those present and voting in both chambers of the legislature? |
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| Most states require a two-thirds majority to pass their budget each year. |
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| What proportion of California legislative seats - those in the Assembly, State Sentate and Congress - are safe, that is, the incumbent wins by a margin of 10 percent margin or more? |
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| California's extraordinary population growth has had effects in the following policy areas? |
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Definition
| Schools, immigration, and housing. |
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Term
| California's population, the foreign-born population, and the approximate number of undocumented immigrants. |
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Definition
| 34 million, 8.8 million, and 2.4 million. |
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Term
| Latino or Hispanic is a racial category in the US census that is taken every ten years? |
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| The proportion of immigrants in California who speak English at home as compared to the United States as a whole is...? |
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| The inability of the California legislature to make decisions that benefit the state as a whole is due to...? |
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Definition
| The loss of consensus since the 1950s and 1960s. |
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| California's term limits are..? |
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| 8 years for the governor, 6 years for the assembly, and 8 years for state senate. |
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| Undocumented immigrants can obtain a driver's license in California? |
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| What is the difference between majoritarian and republican? |
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| Majoritarian = direct democracy, Republican = elected official democracy. |
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| The budget must be passed by 2/3 of those present and voting in both chambers of the legislature? |
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| Most states require a two-thirds majority to pass their budget each year. |
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| What proportion of California legislative seats - those in the Assembly, State Sentate and Congress - are safe, that is, the incumbent wins by a margin of 10 percent margin or more? |
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Definition
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| California's extraordinary population growth has had effects in the following policy areas? |
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| Schools, immigration, and housing. |
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Term
| California's population, the foreign-born population, and the approximate number of undocumented immigrants. |
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| 34 million, 8.8 million, and 2.4 million. |
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Term
| Latino or Hispanic is a racial category in the US census that is taken every ten years? |
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| The proportion of immigrants in California who speak English at home as compared to the United States as a whole is...? |
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Definition
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| The inability of the California legislature to make decisions that benefit the state as a whole is due to...? |
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| The loss of consensus since the 1950s and 1960s. |
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| California's term limits are..? |
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| 8 years for the governor, 6 years for the assembly, and 8 years for state senate. |
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| Undocumented immigrants can obtain a driver's license in California? |
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| The popular democracy process by which citizens can place a constitutional amendment or statute on the ballot is called a ..? |
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| The individual who served as governor during much of the Progressive period was...? |
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| The process by which a certain percentage of those who voted in the last gubernational election can sign petitions to vote on a law enacted by the legislature is a(n)...? |
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| The process by which an elected official is removed from office before his or her term expires is called a(n)...? |
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| Progressive reformers pointed to this company whenever they spoke about machine politics and corporate privilege in Sacramento...? |
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| Southern Pacific railroad. |
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| The only sitting California governor to be recalled from office was...? |
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| Which direct democracy device allows voters to approve or reject statues or amendments passed by the legislature? |
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| In which thirty-year block has the greatest number of initiatives been titled? |
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| What is not a Progressive Era reform...? |
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| What is not a legal way to amend the California constitution? |
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| The governor can sign into law a proposed amendment passed by the legislature. |
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| What are the two ways a party can qualify to be on the CA ballot? |
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| Registration (1 percent voter registration), and petition (1 million signatures). |
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| What is NOT a reason why political campaigns in California present a challenge to candidates? |
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| The blanket primary system. |
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| In running for the state legislature, winners and losers spend nearly the same amount of money on their political campaigns. |
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Definition
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| Political campaigns are so expensive in California because...? |
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| Need to hire consultants, spend substanial amount of media advertising, political parties not involved; All of the above. |
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| Special-interest groups often use the intitative process to achieve their policy objectives. |
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| What is NOT true about Proposition 34, which deals with campaign finance? |
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| The League of Women Voters and Common Cause supported proposition 34. |
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| Of California's 39 million people, approximately how many are registered to vote? |
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| Democrats are the plurality party in California |
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| The number of voters who decline to state a party affiliation at the time they register is declining. |
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| Most of the Democratic counties encompass major urban areas, whereas most of the Republican counties are more rural in nature. |
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| California presently operates under what primary election system? |
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| What are the powers of the speaker of the Assembly? |
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| Control over establishing committies, assigning committee members, and removing them. |
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| What has the president pro-tempore done? |
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| More experience and influence. John Burton |
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| What do California committees do? |
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| Greater spealialization, greater expertise, and greater attention to detail. |
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| What does the line-item veto allow the governor to do? |
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| To reduce or eliminate a specific spending item. |
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| How do initiatives weaken the legislature? |
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| It persuades legislators to vote for measures that they would otherwise oppose in order to prevent it from going to the voters. |
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| The governor to reject any single item an appropriations or budget bill. |
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| Limits the time that legislators can serve in Sacramento. |
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| A 2/3 vote is needed to pass...? |
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| Approporiation bills, budget bills, tax bills, All of the above. |
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| Partisanship in the legislature...? |
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| Has increased in recent years. |
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| The power of the Speaker of the California Assembly does not include..? |
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| The power to assign members to committees but not remove them during the current term. |
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| Proposition 140 did not result in...? |
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| An increased in office budgets. |
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| The legislative process is biased in favor of..? |
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| Change that interest groups favor. |
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| California has some of the largest legislative districts in the nation. This means that...? |
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| Elections in California tend to be expensive. |
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| Term limits have resulted in what? |
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| A decline in the knowledge needed to pass good qualities legislation. |
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