CH 8-12 Flashcards
Reliability
Trustworthy
Paying attention to questions and wording
Super Delegates
Delegates of the democratic national convention not bound to vote for any particular candidate usually prominent members of the party
Electoral College
Votes in the national presidential elections are usually indirect votes for a slate of presidential elector pledged to each party
3rd Party System
The Third Party System is a term of periodization used by historians and political scientists to describe a period in the history of political parties in the United States from 1854 until the mid-1890s that featured profound developments in issues of American nationalism, modernization, and race.
15th Amendment
African Americans right to vote
Voting Rights Act of 1965
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.
Retrospective Voting
A particular powerful form of issue voting in which voters look back over the past term or two
Issue advocacy
The process of campaigning to persuade the public to take positions on the issue
Political Socialization
The process by which people learn about world politics
Caucuses
a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy.
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PAC
Committees formed as the fundraising and financial distribution of interest groups
Local Party Organizations
The initial point of entry for those seeking involvement in politics as volunteers organizers or candidates
Participation
Mass political involvement through voting campaign work political protests and civil disobedience among many others
19th amendment
Womens right to vote
Suffrage
Right to vote
Coattails effect
Occurs in election when voters also elect representatives or senators belonging to a successful presidential candidates party
Federal matching funds
System under which presidential candidates who raise a certain amount of money i required way to apply for and receive matching federal funds.
Representative Sample
Includes all the significant characteristics of the total population
Closed Primaries
A system conducting primary elections in which only citizens registered as members of a particular political party may participate in that partys primary
First Institutional Party System
Federalist
Democratic- Republican
Platform
Declared policy
Referendum
general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.
24th Amendment
prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
Effect voting
Education
Social status
Age
Marital status
Contingency Election
An election held in the white house if no candidate receives the required majority in the electoral college
Initiative
Proposal submitted by the legislature to the public during election
Straw poll
Non scientific method of measuring public opinion
Machine Politics
Organizational style of local politics in which party bosses traded jobs money and favors for votes and campaign support
Open primaries
A system conducting primary elections in which citizens vote in whichever partys primary they chose
Public Opinion
The collective expression of attitudes about the prominent issues of actors of the day
Split Ticket Ballots
Ballots on which people vote for candidates from more than one party
26th Amendment
Voting for age of 18 or older
Soft Voting
Campaign contributions directed to advocating the interest of political party or an issue in general rather than a candidate
RANDOM SAMPLE
A strategy requires for a valid poll whereby every member of the population has an equal chance of appearing in the sample
