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| what is direct democracy? |
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| when people directly vote on laws |
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| what is indirect democracy? |
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| representative democracy where the public elects officials to exercise power on their behalf |
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| what is political participation? |
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| actively taking a role in politics by either acting on their own or with other interest groups |
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| what is the difference between formal and informal participation? |
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formal: participating through the official political institution (city council, mayors, etc.)
informal: participation outside of the official political institutions (civil disobedience, boycotts, etc.) |
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| what are ballot initiatives and referendums? |
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ballot initiatives: bottom up process
referendums: top down process |
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| what is a primary election? |
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| when you vote for a candidate for the general election |
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what is the difference between a closed and an open primary?
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an open primary does not need a registration with the party that you are choosing
a closed primary requires you to be registered with the party that you choose to vote for |
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| what does it mean to vote correctly? |
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| selecting a candidate that best matches up with your views, ideas, beliefs, etc. |
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| what are candidate centered and party centered campaign strategies? |
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candidate centered focuses on the candidate that is running (positives of your candidate, negative of theirs)
party centered focuses on the positive or negative attributes of the parties |
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| what are political parties? |
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| a group of people who want to control government and policies through elected office |
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| why are there only two viable parties in the US? |
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| most people believe that voting for a third party is wasting their vote; two parties have been dominant since the civil war |
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| what are third parties? what effect do they have? |
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| third parties are any political groups outside of the dominant two; these parties give voters other options that may work with their beliefs better |
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| what is the difference between hard news and soft news? |
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hards news focuses primarily on reporting news/ information
soft news does not focus on reporting news but does include informational content |
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| what is the difference between descriptive and interpretive reporting? |
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descriptive is just laying out the basic facts
interpretive includes facts but also includes an opinion or guess of some sort |
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| what are interest groups? |
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| organized groups that seek to influence public policy |
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| what is the revolving door? |
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| The ability of public officials to when they leave office to get high paying jobs in a private sector lobbying for a firm that they use to be in and vice versa |
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| sucessor to the office of the presidency was first established in ... |
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| article 2 of the US Constitution |
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| what position in the Senate decides whether a bill is introduced to the committee |
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| in the electoral college, the amount of electors each state gets is equal to |
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| the number of members it has in house of representatives and the senate |
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| all federal bills relating to revenue must |
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| originate in the house of representatives |
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| district boundaries for house of representatives is drawn by |
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| how long is the term for members of the house of representatives |
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| what can change a vote in the total number of seats in the house of representatives |
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| a vote in both houses of congress |
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| who would assume presidency if the president, vice president, and speaker of the house all died? |
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| president pro tempore of the senate |
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| to ratify an amendment to the US constitution after it's proposed, ___ of ___ must approve the amendment |
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| what amendment banned poll taxes? |
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| what amendment says that the right to vote can not be denied based on race? |
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| in order to override a presidential veto, it is necessary to get a ____ vote in _____. |
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| 2/3; both houses of congress |
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| which position is the most powerful in the house of representatives? |
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| what is the constitutional basis for the nationalization of the Bill of Rights? |
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| in a parliamentary system, the head of government is... |
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| which article of the US Constitution discusses Congress? |
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| how are amendments to the constitution of the state of Georgia ratified? |
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| 2/3 in both houses of legislature |
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| the right to citizenship regardless of race, color of former status of servitude to those born in the US |
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| direct election of US Senators |
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| what is the strictly rational perspective? |
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the belief that there is no individual incentive for voting so that is a reason why a person would not vote
P (B)- C > 0 |
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| why do people vote even after the strictly rational perspective? |
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because of psychological benefits
P (D) -C +D > 0 |
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| what is the FEC and what did it do? |
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| it is the Federal Election Campain Act of 1974 that limited the amount an individual can give to a candidate |
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