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| The current holder of a particular public office. |
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| A member of Congress's consecutive years of service on a particular committee. |
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| A parliamentary maneuver that, if three-fifths majority votes for it, limits the Senate debate to thirty hours and has the effect of defeating filibuster. |
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| A small and informal but relatively stable group of well-positioned legislators, executives, and lobbyists who seek to promote policies beneficial to a particular interest. |
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| A form of lobbying in which an interest group seeks to use public pressure as a means of influencing officials. |
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| Define Political Action Committee (PAC) |
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| The organization through which an interest group raises and distributes funds for election purposes. By law, the funds must be raised through voluntary contributions. |
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Campaign funds given directly to candidate is called hard money.
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b)false |
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The designation of a particular individual to run as a political party's candidate in the general election is?
a)nomination
b)air wars
c)single member district
d)ideological party |
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The groups and interest that support a political party is?
a)single issue party
b)party organization
c)factional party
d)party coalition |
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A political party is an ongoing coalition of interest joined together to try to get their candidates for public office elected under a common label.
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b)false |
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Campaign contributions that are not subject to legal limits and are given to parties rather than directly to candidates is?
a)hard money
b)money chase
c)packaging
d)soft money |
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Which of the following is used to describe the fact that U.S. campaigns are very expensive and candidates must spend a great amount of time raising funds in order to compete successfully?
a)political consultants
b)money chase
c)proportional representation
d)median voter theorem |
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Which of the following groups believes that government should do more to assist people who have difficulty meeting their economic needs and who look to government to uphold traditional values?
a)libertarians
b)populists
c)cultural liberals
d)cultural conservatives |
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Public opinion is the politically relevant opinions held by ordinary citizens that they express openly.
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b)false |
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Sample is the personal sense of loyalty that an individual may feel towards a particular political party.
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b)false |
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In a public opinion poll, the relatively small number of individuals who are interviewed for the purpose of estimating the opinions of an entire population is?
a)sampling error
b)public opinion poll
c)sample
d)populists |
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Political culture is the learning process by which people acquire their political opinions, beliefs and values.
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b)false |
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Those who believe government power should be used to uphold traditional values are?
a)populist
b)cultural conservatives
c)libertarians
d)cultural liberals |
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Agents of socialization are?
a)those that have a significant impact on citizens' political socialization.
b)those who believe government tries to do too many things that should be left to private interests and economic markets.
c)those who believe it is not government's role to buttress traditional values.
d)those who believe governments should do more to assist people. |
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| a) those that have a significant impact on citizens' political socialization. |
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| A___________is a form of lobbying designed to persuade officials that a group's policy position has strong constituent support. |
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| ___________ is the sum of the face-to-face interaction among citizens in a society. |
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| The feeling of personal disinterest in or unconcern with politics is ___________. |
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| __________ is the right to vote. |
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| The proportion of persons of voting age who actually vote in a given election is ___________. |
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| __________ is the practice of placing citizens' names on an official list of voters before they are eligible to exercise their right to vote. |
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| A ___________ is an active and sustained efforts to achieve social an political change by groups of people who feel that government has not been properly responsive to their concerns. |
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| An __________ is an informal and relatively open network of public officials and lobbyists who have a common interest in a given area and who are brought together by a proposed policy in that area. |
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