2nd Gov. Quiz Flashcards
🌟Ideological-Party
How does this work?
Ideological party has Lib and Con
Party has dem and Rep
Con connects to rep
Lib connects to dem
🌟Moderate-centrist (middle)
Most politicians, 90%
🌟Liberal (left)
Goal?
It’s goal is ‘Equality and individual rights’
- loose interpretation
- Big gov.
- Regulated economy (favor trade policies)
- more progression
- Pro environment
- Democrats
🌟Conservative (Right)
Goal?
Goal: ‘Preserve heritage and culture’
- strict interpretation
- small gov.
- Laissez=fair economic approach (favor free trade policies)
- maintain society Norms
- Pro-business and industry
- Republicans
🌟Radical (far left)
- desire social change
- violent and extremists
- black Panthers
🌟Reactionary (far right)
- strongly oppose to social change in society
- violent and militant
- KKK
🌟Who would be in favor of…
Affirmative action type policies, personal freedom, no capital punishments, women’s rights for abortion, welfare for all less fortunate, gay rights, protecting American interests politically, religious tolerance, CNN, big gov. regulating economy, legalization of marijuana
Liberal
🌟Who would be in favor of…
Using traditional Christian heritage to seek guidance, rights for the unborn, pro guns, supporting only the ‘truly’ needy people, using the military to protect American intents, National rifle association, FOX news
Conservative
🌟On the political spectrum, how is everything ordered from left to right?
Radical, liberal, dem, mod dem, moderate, mod rep, rep, conservative, reactionary
🌟Who would allow KKK to organize and march in a parade in a city?
Liberal, or conservative?
Liberal
BOTH
🌟Who would require all high school students to say the pledge?
Liberal or conservative?
Conservative
🌟What would a 45 year old doctor with 2 children, and a thirty eight year old politician who supports tax cuts for the wealthy be?
Republicans or Democrats?
Republicans
🌟What would a single 20 year old male, a Hispanic college student majoring in business, and a 20 year old female school teacher all be?
A democrat or a republican?
Democrat
🌟what are Democrats like?
Donkey, minorities, younger, lower level income, pro-Union (worker), urban (city)
🌟 what are Republicans like?
Elephant, WASP (white Anglo Saxon Protestants), experienced and older, higher level income, pro-management (employed), suburban and rural.
🌟Whats the Green Party like?
Represent the liberal (left), very pro-environment, advocates for social justice
🌟Libertarian party
Right, economically , social-more moderate, small gov.-via tax cuts
🌟Caucus
Meeting of members of a political party for the purpose of choosing a candidate for an election
🌟Complications of an election
- Primary’s vs Caucuses
- Who can vote
- Who votes when
- Votes that aren’t votes
- Super Delegates
🌟15th amendment
Gives former slaves and non-white people the right to vote
Key words African American
🌟19th amendment
Right to vote can not be restricted to gender
Key word women
🌟23rd amendment
Gives the district of Columbia electoral votes
Key word DC
🌟24th amendment
Abolishes all forms of poll tax
Key word taxes
🌟26th amendment
Right to vote goes to 18 year olds
Key word age
🌟How did the two party system begin?
It began with the federalist so and the anti-federalists
What are the 4 minor party’s (third party’s)?
The ideological party, the single issue party, the economic protest party, and the splinter party
🌟How do party’s choose their candidates???
They select candidates and present them to voters and make them want to vote by informing and inspiring them
🌟 What are Political party’s? What do they want?
Groups of people that want to control the gov. through winning elections and holding public office
Major parties
Republic and democrats
What role does public opinion polling play in the American political system?
The opinion of the people in our government system is huge. It’s not the only influence, but it’s a big deal?????
Public opinion polls
Asking people questions on opinions
🌟How does bias in media affect our ability to understand current events?
Bias has to do with slanting the truth wether on purpose or on accident, like when someone is closed to themselves sometimes you assume something’s wrong with them. That might not be the case, and the same kind of thing can happen with political events
What are the different types of voting held in the US of A?
Primaries, caucuses, general elections, etc…
Primary elections
An election where a party’s voters get to
1. Choose state party organizations delegates to their party’s national convention
And/Or
2. Express a preference for their party’s presidential nomination
General elections
A regularly scheduled election where voters make a final selection of office holders
Who is in charge of the electoral process in the state of Illinois?
State election committee
🌟Precincts
A voting district
The smallest geographical units for each conduct of elections
Has no more than 500-1000 qualified voters
🌟Polling places
The place where the voters that live in a precinct actually vote
What are the functions of the two parties?
To nominate electors
Bias
Slanted view
🌟The three voter qualifications
Citizen ship, residence, and you have to be 18 or older
🌟How does a voters behavior and factors influence turnout
Higher income-more likely Higher occupation-more likely Higher education-more likely Age: 35+ more likely Women-more likely Party identification-the more dedicated, the more votes
🌟Name the political party that would promote personal liberty for its followers and promote economic conservatism through heavy tax cuts?
Libertarians
Name the philosophy of the gov. President Obama is most likely to follow
Centrist leaning towards liberal.
Check with teacher
Name the political party that believes in true equality for all of its members
Possibly socialism or communism
Check with teacher
🌟What are the publics opinion influential factors?
Family, school, 🌟mass media, peer groups, opinion leaders, and historic events
🌟Where does campaign funding come from?
Individual donations and super PAC’s
Straight ticket voters
Voters who support canisters of the same party in every election
Split ticket voters
Voters who support candidates of different parties in the same election or from one election to the next
Absent ballot
If you missed the ballot you can fill this out and you’r vote will count p
🌟Electoral college
- body that formally elects the president
- representative and senator (# of elector votes)
- there are 100 senators (2 per state), 435 representatives, and 3 electors in DC (538 total electoral votes)
- need 279 votes to win
Electors
Voted by the people to vote for the president. They can vote for whoever they want though, although they typically listen to the voters
🌟What is the difference between a PAC and a super PAC?
PAC’s-has limitations
Super PAC’s-no limitations
