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| Organizations that act as an intermediary between the people and government with the goal of getting their members elected to public office. |
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| Basic belief system that guides the party. |
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| View that holds that a growing number of voters and candidates do not identify with either major political party but are independents. |
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| Casting all your votes for candidates of one party. |
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| Minor party that supported election of Mexican Americans in Texas in the 1970s. |
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| Permanent Party Organization |
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| Series of elected officials of a political party that keep the party organization active between elections. |
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| Party official elected in each voting precinct to organize and support the party. |
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| Party official elected in each county to organize and support the party. |
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| County Executive Committee |
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| Committee made up of a county chair and all precinct chairs in the county; serves as the official organization for the party in each county. |
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| State Executive Committee |
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| Committee made up of one man and one woman elected from each state senatorial district that functions as the governing body of the party. |
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| Heads the state executive committee and provides leadership for the party. |
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| Temporary Party Organization |
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| Series of meetings or conventions that occur every two years at the precinct, county, and state levels. |
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| Presidential Preference Primary |
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| Elections held every four years by political parties to determine the preferences of voters for presidential candidates. |
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| What is an organization of individuals sharing common goals that tries to influence governmental decisions? |
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| Political Action Committee (PAC) |
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| What is a group of spin-off interest groups that collect money for campaign contributions and other activity? |
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| This is an interest group that have individual citizens or businesses as members. Example; Nation Rifle Association |
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| Nonmembership Organizations |
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| What interest groups represent corporations and businesses but do not have broad-based citizen support? |
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| What interest groups represent state and local governments? They may also be called SLIGSs for state and local interest groups. |
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| What interest group represent more specific business interests? |
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| Retail Trade Associations |
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| This type of organization seeks to protect and promote the interests of member businesses involved in the sales of goods and services. |
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| Professional Associations |
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| What organization promotes the interests of individuals who generally must hold a state issued license to engage in their profession? |
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| What negotiations take place between an employer and a group of employees to determine employment conditions, such as those related to wages, working hours, and safety? |
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| Legislation stipulating that a person cannot be denied employment because of membership or nonmembership in a labor union or other labor organization. |
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| League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) |
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| What is the largest organization that represents Latinos in Texas? |
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| State and Local Interest Groups (SLIGs) |
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| Which interest group represents state and local government, such as the Texas Association of Counties? |
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| What is the practice of attempting to influence the legislature, originally by catching members in the lobby of the capital? |
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| What is a various activity in which interest groups engage to try to influence the outcome of elections? |
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| Which state agency is responsible for enforcing requirements for interest groups and candidates for public office to report information on money collected and activities? |
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| What is a characteristic of some interest groups in that they have members in all regions of the state? |
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| What is a political term for an interest group that appears to have many grassroots members but in fact does not have any active members? |
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| Fragmented Government Structure |
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| What is a government structure where power is dispersed to many state agencies with little or no central control? |
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| What is the practice of trying to secure benefits for oneself to one's group through political means? |
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| What is the situation in which a state agency or board falls under the heavy influence of or is controlled by its constituency interest groups? |
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| Public Policy: "Whatever governments choose to do or not to do." Is said by whom? |
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| ___ ____ _____ is a measure of how liberal or conservative a state is on some state politics. |
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| The Robin Hood Plan is a system for funding the ____ ____ and secondary public school education whereby rich districts send money to the state, which then distributes those funds to poor school districts. |
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| What is a decision by the state legislature to allow state colleges and universities to set the rate of tuition charged to students? |
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| What state laws and constitutional amendments set aside money to be spent on specific items? Such as state gasoline tax to state highways. |
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| Permanent University Fund (PUF) |
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| What money is set aside in the state constitution to benefit the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University? |
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| Higher Education Assistance Fund (HEAF) |
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| What money is set aside for use by those universities not benefiting from the PUF? |
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| A decision made by federal courts to end affirmative action in Texas schools; these programs had provided for special treatment for minority students in being accepted to colleges and professional schools. |
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| What is a set of beliefs that are about political processes and the role that government should play in our society? |
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| What is a goods or services that is characterized by the features of nonexcludability and nonrivalrous consumption, that are often provided by the governments? |
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| What is the inability to practically prevent people from receiving or enjoying a good or service due to nonpayment? |
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| This situation is when the use or enjoyment of goods or services by a person or persons does not diminish the availability of that good or service for others to use or enjoy? |
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| What are goods that are provided with no charge because there is a broader public benefit associated with the goods? |
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| What are goods that a government takes money from one group of citizens and gives it to other citizens welfare as a good example? |
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| Good, activity, or resource that the government regulates to prevent overuse. An example is pumping water from a community owned aquifer. |
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| What is a measure of the wealth of a state or its ability to raise revenues that are relative to all other states? |
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| This measure is how close a state comes to using its tax capacity? |
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