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| The basic principles that shape a person's opinions about political issues and events |
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| Ideology itself, or the sharing of a commonly developed ideology, is another important nonmaterial benefit. many of the most successful interest groups of the past twenty years have been citizens' groups or public interest groups whose members are brought together largely around shared idological goals |
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| Not knowing all aspects of the actions taken by an agent |
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| The problem of incomplete information--of choosing alternatives without fully knowing the details of available options |
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| When a principle hires an agent |
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| Poll taxes and literacy requirements |
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| Stopped many Americans from voting if they didn't make a certain amount of money or couldn't read |
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| Voters who make their decisions on the basis of issues may vote prospectively by estimating how a candidate might perform in the future |
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judging candidates and parties based on their past performance.
Often such retrospective evaluations are based on economic performance |
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| the Democratic and Republican parties compete for office and power |
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| amont other things made it a crime to publish or say anything that might tend to defame or bring into disrespute either the president or Congress |
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| Every two years at the beginning of a new Congress, the members of each party gater to elect their House leaders. This gathering is called the party caucus by the Democrats and the party conference by the Republicans. |
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| lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1971 |
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| Apportionment of voters in districts in such a way as to give unfair advantage to one political party |
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| Clinton signed the "motor voter" bill to ease voter registrartion by allowing individuals to register when they applied for driver's licenses, as well as in public-assistance and military-recruitment offices. |
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| Victory is awarded to the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes in a given election regardless of the actual percentage of votes this represents. Thus a candidate who received 40% of the votes cast may win the contest so long as no rival receives more votes. |
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| Proportional representation. |
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| In some electoral systems, muliple representatives are selected from each distric, constituency, or region according to a third electoral system |
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| have represented social and economic prottests that, for one or another reason, were not given voice by the two major parites. |
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| Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community |
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| An untruthful statement about a person, published in writing or through broadcast media, that injures the person's reputation or standing in the community. |
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-registered
-citizen of the U.S.
-resided in Utah for 30 days
-18 years
-not convicted of a felony |
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| Extend the right to vote. Expanding.Broadning the civil right to vote. |
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| Voting in a way your not eligible |
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| Every ten years process of changing political borders to fit population needs |
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| the group of eleectors who formally select the president and vice president of the united states |
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| The security in knowing your vote is confidential and you cant be influenced by other's votes nor will others be influenced by your vote |
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| mixed parties. Straight ticket is voting for one party all the way through |
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Private groups that raise and distribute funds for the use in election campaigns. They channel the contributions of their members into political campaigns.
They are allowed to make larger contributions to a candidate than an individual can. They are central to campaign finance in the U.S. |
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| refers to the means by which money is raised for election campaigns. As campaigns have many expenditures, ranging from the cost of travel for the candidate and others to the purchasing of air time for TV advertisements, candidates often spend a great deal of time and effort raising money to finance their cause |
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| also referred to simply as a primary, is an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words, primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the following general election. |
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| refers to the formal party organizations and processes and to those aspects of political parties that assist and direct candidates seeking to win office in elections. |
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Gov’t effort to block publication that could possibly be harmful; censorship. The Courts forbid prior restraint except under extraordinary circumstances.
Gov’t sometimes doesn’t want newspapers/magazines to print certain material (ex. Pentagon papers), but the Supreme Court says Gov’t can’t control this because of 1st amendment rights. |
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| The Federal Communications Commission, an independent regulatory agency established in 1934 to regulate broadcast media (radio and TV) |
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| Poll taxes and literacy requirements |
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| Tactics used by states to manipulate voting in a discriminatory way |
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| presidential candidate (someone high on ticket) a positive impact of people lower on the ticket. increase in margin from person's political party |
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| Someone who lobby's government. Raises money for the political figure that shares the views that the lobbyist wants |
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| the iron triangle is a term used by political scientists to describe the policy-making relationship between the legislature, the bureaucracy (executive) (sometimes called "Government Agencies"), and interest groups |
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| allows an individual to control how a U.S. consumer reporting agency is able to sell his or her data. The credit freeze locks the data at the consumer reporting agency until an individual gives permission for the release of the data. |
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| is a list of the principles which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's candidates voted into office. This often takes the form of a list of support for, or opposition to, controversial topics |
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| a political term to describe a voter's underlying allegiance to a political party |
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| a law authorizing the United States Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to US$700 billion to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities, from the nation's banks. The purpose of the plan was to purchase bad assets, reduce uncertainty regarding the worth of the remaining assets, and restore confidence in the credit markets |
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| holds that political power in society does not lie with the electorate, nor with a small concentrated elite, but is distributed between a wide number of groups. These groups may be trade unions, interest groups, business organizations, and any of a multitude of formal and informal coalitions |
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| refers to the "common well-being" or "general welfare." What candidates debate on that the public is interested in. |
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| Interests that go along or conform with your morals |
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| Interests that conform with the economy |
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| an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions, forming a cartel of labor |
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| Mancur Olson's collective action |
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| he theorized that “only a separate and ‘selective’ incentive will stimulate a rational individual in a latent group to act in a group-oriented way”; that is, only a benefit reserved strictly for group members will motivate one to join and contribute to the group. This means that individuals will act collectively to provide private goods, but not to provide public goods. |
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| Decide whether to help themselves and betray their friend or stay true to their friend and serve the six months. and/or wondering what the other will choose. |
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| a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. |
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| generally to describe almost any "gap" between the reality of a situation and what politicians and government agencies say about it |
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| journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers. It may feature exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. |
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| is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. |
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| a policy of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required the holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was (in the FCC's view) honest, equitable, and balanced. |
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| by choosing certain news and how much to play it they influence how important the people think it is |
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| Campaign advertising is the use of paid media (newspapers, radio, television, etc.) to influence the decisions made for and by groups |
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| the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. |
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| is the requirement in some democracies for citizens and residents to check in with some central registry specifically for the purpose of being allowed to vote in elections |
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| the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election |
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is a meeting of a political party, typically to select party candidates.
In the United States, a political convention usually refers to a presidential nominating convention |
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