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| What are the main sources of political values for the average person? |
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| Where does your party identification come from? |
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| Is the transmission of polotics, opinion, beliefs, and values |
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| Your beliefs bout government or pol. philosophy |
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| How a valid survey is started |
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| Relates results with background of respondents |
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| Major shit of power in congress, happened in 1932 and 1995 |
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| Single member legislative district |
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| Winner takes all and the the US has a dominant 2 party system and third parties have little change of winning |
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| You win less than the majority due to many candidates, happens in Europe and Gubernatorial elections. |
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| Dispensing political favors from winner of elections |
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| Can only vote for candidates from your party |
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| Manipulation of legislative district boundaries that favors one candidate or party over another |
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| What are the primary sources of new for voters? |
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1. TV
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3. Internet or social media
4. Newspapers |
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| Regional presidential primary in several states |
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| Requires 270 electoral votes to win and centers as bell-weather/swing states such as Ohio, Florida, Virgina, Penn. and Michigan |
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| A secret source of money committees that can fund SuperPacs to spend unlimited money and 527 committees that can spend money on issue advocacy. They cannot have connection with candidates |
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| Political Action Committees, must disclose where money came from and must have no connection to the candidates or ballot measures. Must disclouse their source of money and they're usually made up or corporate sponsors or labor |
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| 2010, Court ruled money is speech and corporations and unions are people. No more spending limits for candidates or ballot measures. But they are limited in money they' accept directly. All sources of money must be reported to the FPPC or FEC |
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| Money candidates accept directly. |
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| Money donated by political parties |
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| Courts ruled that indv. can prevail over majority who don't partcipate |
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| When you vote and don't provide proper material. Vote won't count until it's true. |
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| Votes have selective exposure, perception and retention of information plus react most of candidate mannerisms appearance and what they're saying. |
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| Going along with crowd because you think they have the best ideas |
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| Assumptions and compliance with requests without questioning the purpose or objectives |
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| What is the purpose of political parties? |
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| Are put to people in elected office |
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| Ballot measures that are voted on, either initiatives or referenda |
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| On ballot, voters can select both republican and democratic candidates for offices and want more services but less taxes |
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| "if a national expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was or will be" |
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| "We have a government of, by and for the people" |
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| "Democracy depends on informed public opinion" |
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| Walter Lipmann, journalist |
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| founding political scientist, said leaders that ignore demands risk assassination |
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| California open meeting law |
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| Party leadership telling how members in the legislature are to vote |
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| Combo of legislators, corporations or labor groups and lobbyists that as a coalition persuade leaders to vote special interests |
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| Campaign money from PACs, Super-PACs, 525 together |
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| Party leaders and elected officials at presidential nominating conventions |
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| Capture Theory or Co-optation |
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| Where interest groups dominate legislature rather than public opinion |
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| Bypassing state legislature to go directly to voters |
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| Differences between democrats and republicans or Iron Law of Reciprocity |
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Republicans are from rural and agricultural areas and homogenous
Democrats are usually from urban areas and are heterogeneous as a general rule |
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| Grants all state's electoral vote to the candidate who received most of the popular vote |
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| What happens if no candidate gets 270 electoral votes? |
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| It will go to the House to decide the president and to the Senate to decide the Vice President |
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| Polices given to the president that don't require legislative approval. |
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| Presidential Unilateral Power in foreign affairs and vs. domestic power |
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| Treaties, attack response, commander in chief on the military, ordering citizens to leave war zones, in contrast the president has very limited power on domestic authority. must have congress approval |
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| President can't cover up criminal acts and can't claim executive privilege to keep information from congress |
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| Clinton v. Power and Clinton v. Luensky |
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| Must disclose documents, Clinton was impeached as a result. State governor's have line-item veto |
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| Means one becomes a defendant and takes place if a majority of the house votes to impeach and the Senate must try and if 2/3 of the vote to convict in the Senate the official is out of office |
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| Most frequent voters in elections and are the best lobbyists and former legislators. |
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| Issue oriented, reply on name recognition and party ID, lesser so slate mailers and endorsements |
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| To make each legislative district have the same number of people and to achieve this it is required to redistrict every tean years, but gerrymandering can be done to benefit the incumbent |
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| Results of Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims in 1962 and 1964 |
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| Result is political power in country shifted from the rural areas to urban areas and from the north east to south and west |
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| The policy statement of the political party decided at the party conventions as to what they stand for and plans if elected |
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| Represents 538 possible votes to decide who is president (435 from house, 100 from senate, 3 from territories) and must win a majority of 270 in winner-take-all system. |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| More than one person can represent and is found in unitary governments such as Europe and they have a multi party system rather than a dominant two party system |
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| Role of Media in Government |
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| They have a watchdog rule in government, but can be influenced by corporate sponsors. Influenced by entertainment value. Reporting can be editorialized. Most new sonly offer soundbites. |
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| When a survey transfers the respondent to their legislator to encourage legislative support on a issue along with public opinion survey results |
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| California 1974 Political Reform Act |
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| Avoided conflict of interests and provided campaign finance disclosure |
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| Anyone can vote in a primary election |
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| Lobbyist creed [I the lobbyist will support you with money and votes in your next election or current election if you support my policy goals and legislative agenda} |
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| Conservative democratic members of Congress who may side with republicans on legislation |
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| Many interests groups and elites on policy matters and thus no on entity or group that controls all |
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| Assistant party leader in Congress, both parties and houses |
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| Demographics or Demography |
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| Compositions of voters by race, ethnic background, gender, religion, age, etc |
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| Special budget designations for members of congress to get their support for a budget without going through the committee process and a form of payoff to get votes for partisan leaders in Congress both parties and houses |
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| conservative republicans opposed to government growth and taxes. complete fucks |
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| What is the President's greatest power? |
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| Power to persuade as they are dependent on congress to accept their legislation, but the President must also sign bills passes by congress. |
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