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| The behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology |
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| Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication |
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| Events purposely staged for the media that nonetheless look spontaneous. In keeping with politics as theater, media events can be staged by individuals, groups, and governmental officials, especially presidents. |
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| Meetings of public officials with reporters |
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| The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, which at times puts reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders. |
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| Newspapers and magazines, as compared with broadcast media. |
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| Television and radio, as compared with print media |
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| Media programming on cable TV or the Internet that is focused on one topic and aimed at a particular audience. |
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| Newspapers published by massive media conglomerates that account for almost 3/4 of the nation's daily circulation. |
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| Specific locations from which news frequently emanates. |
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| An intentonal news leakfor the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
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| Short video clips of approximately 15 seconds, typically all that is shown from a politicians speech or activities on the nightly television news. |
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| A shot of a person's face talking directly to the camera. |
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| The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics |
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| People who invest their political "capitol" in an issue. |
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| The battle of the parties for control of public offices. |
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| A team of men and women seeking to control the governing apparatus by gaining office in a duly constituted election. |
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| The channels through whih people's concerns become political issues on the government's policy agenda. |
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| The voter's perception of what the Republicans or Democrats stand for, such as conservatism or liberalism. |
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| A popular theory in political science to explain the actions of voters as well as politicians. It assumes that individuas act in their own best intrests, carefully weighing the costs and benefits of pssible alternatives. |
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| A citizen's self-proclamed preference for one party or the other. |
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| Voting with one party for one office and with another party for other offices. |
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| A type of political party organiization that relies heavily on material inducements, such as patronage, to win votes and to govern. |
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| One of the key inducements used by party machines. A patronage job, promotion, or contract is one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone. |
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| Elections to selet arty nominees in which only people who have registered in advance with the party can vote for that party's candidates, thus encouraging greater party loyalty. |
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| Elections to select party nominees in which voters can decided on election day whether they want to participate in the democratic or republican contests. |
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| Elections to select party nominees in which voters are presented with a list of candidates from all the parties. |
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| The meeting of party delegates every four years to choose a presidential ticket and write the party's platform |
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| One of the institutions that keeps the party operating between conventions. |
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| is responsible for the day-to-day activites of the party and is usually hand picked by the presidential nominee. |
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| Historical periods in which a majority of voters cling to the party in power, which tends to win a majority of the elections. |
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| an electoral "earthquake" where new issues emerge, new coalitions replace old ones, and th majjority party in often displaced by the minority party. |
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| a group of individuals with a common interest upon which every political party depends |
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| The desplacement of the majority party by the minority party. |
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| a coalition forged by the democrats who dominated American politics from the 30s to the 60s. |
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| The gradual disengagement of people and politicians from the parties, as seen in part y shrinking party identificaiton. |
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| many Americans indifferent toward two major political parties. |
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| other than the 2 major political parties; rarely win elections. |
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| If you get the popular vote, you then recieve all of the electoral votes. |
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| Proportional Representation |
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| awards legislative seats to political parties in proportion to the number of votes won in an election |
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| When two or more parties join to form a majority in the national legislature |
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| Clear choices offered and used to give candidate preferences. |
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