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| One who is conservative on economic issues but liberal on personal-conduct issues |
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| Sensationalized news reporting |
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| One who is conservative on both economic and personal-conduct issues |
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| One who is liberal on economic issues but conservative on personal-conduct issues |
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| Newspapers created, sponsored, and controlled by political parties to further their interests |
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| A survey of public opinion |
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| A term used by the Framers to describe what we today call 'factions' |
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| Middle-income people who live in cities, do not attend church, and have mostly liberal views |
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| A survey technique used to ensure each person has an equal chance of being surveyed |
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| People who have a disproportionate amount of political power |
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| A term used to describe the clash between the new class and the traditional middle class |
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| The role played by the national media in influencing what subjects become political issues and for how long |
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| Differences in political views between men and women |
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| The government agency charged with regulating the electronic media |
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| Individuals or groups representing other organizations |
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| An organization whose goals, if realized, would benefit primarily non-group members |
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| Any group that seeks to influence public policy |
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| Group of reformers who were able to reduce the worst forms of political corruption within political parties |
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| Reform oriented legislation that took federal employees out of machine politics |
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| A political party organization built around allegiance to a particular candidate |
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| Political party founded by Thomas Jefferson |
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| A political party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over members' activities |
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| A citizen's sense that he/she can understand and influence politics |
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| The sense of pleasure, status, or companionship arising from group membership |
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| Money, things, or services obtainable from interest group membership |
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| The practice of voting for one major party's candidates in state or local elections and the other's at the national level |
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| PAC contributions for advertising, supporting, or opposing a candidate that are made without a candidate's direction and approval |
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| A party realignment that occurred during the 1932 election in which urban workers, southern whites, northern blacks, and Jewish voters joined together to make the Democratic party the majority party |
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| Legislation that gave women the right to vote in all elections |
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| A time during which a sharp, lasting shift occurs in the popular coalition supporting one or both parties |
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| A phenomenon in which a citizen simply ignores or is irritated by messages on radio and television that do not mesh with existing beliefs |
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| The percentage of the voting-age population that votes |
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| A group of conservative fundamentalists |
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| A politician that currently holds a specific elective office |
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| The citizen simply ignores or gets irritated by messages that do not accord with existing beliefs |
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| Legislation that made it illegal to exclude potential voters based on color |
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| A document that is government printed, of uniform size, and cast in secret |
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| A senate rule offering a means for stopping filibuster |
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| A rule issued by the Rules Committee that does not allow a bill to be amended on the House floor |
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| A means by which senators can extend debate on a bill to prevent or delay its consideration |
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| A means by which the House can remove a bill stalled in committee |
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| The theory of congressional voting behavior that assumes that members make voting decisions in order to please fellow members and obtain their goodwill |
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| A group of moderate to conservative democrats |
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| Plays an important role in the consideration of bills |
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| A theory of congressional voting behavior which assumes that members make voting decisions based on their perception of constituents' wishes to ensure their own reelection |
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| The extent to which members of a party vote together in the House or Senate |
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| A theory of congressional voting behavior which assumes that members vote based on their own beliefs because the array of conflicting pressures on members cancel one another out |
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| Unrelated amendments added to a bill |
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| An individual who assists the party leader in staying abreast of the concerns and voting intentions of the party members |
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| Group of democratic senators that assigns other senators to the senate's standing committee |
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