Chapter 10 Terms

Question 1

Public service network with the major goal of preventing coverage of the House and Senate without editing, commentary or analysis

Answer 1

C-SPAN

Question 2

“friend of the court”

Answer 2

amicus curiae

Question 3

The country’s management of its international relations

Answer 3

Public policy

Question 4

One does not call himself a conservative or liberal

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Moderates

Question 5

Published false statements that injure someone’s reputation

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Libel

Question 6

Attempting to persuade people to follow a crowd by insisting that everyone else is voting for this candidate

Answer 6

Bandwagon

Question 7

Creating the image of a common person using slogans as “friend of the common man”

Answer 7

Plain folks

Question 8

Using the endorsements of celebrities to create the idea that important people are going to vote for a certain candidate

Answer 8

Testimonial

Question 9

Political philosophy that defends against major change by the government to the political, economic, and social institutions of society; but seeks nonbureaucratic solutions to political issues

Answer 9

Conservatism

Question 10

The principles and activities that constitute a government’s public policy regarding issue within the nation

Answer 10

Domestic policy

Question 11

The principles and activities that constitute a nation’s public policy regarding issues abroad

Answer 11

Foreign policy

Question 12

Informal polls

Answer 12

Straw polls

Question 13

Those issues the government decides to deal with

Answer 13

Agenda

Question 14

Surveys of public thought on particular subjects

Answer 14

Opinion polls

Question 15

Group of individuals that share like opinions on a political issue or group of issues that unite in some organization to influence government officials and further their views; pressure groups

Answer 15

Interest groups

Question 16

Tactics used by interest groups to influence public officials

Answer 16

Lobbying

Question 17

Political philosophy that seeks through government action to change the political, economic, and social status quo and to encourage the development and well being of the individual

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Liberalism

Question 18

An accurate representation of the population involved in an opinion poll

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Representative sample

Question 19

Opinions held by the public that the government responds to through the development of public policy

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Public opinion

Question 20

The major forms of media (radio, television, newspapers, magazines, Internet) and the news organizations associated with them

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Mass media

Question 21

Laws protecting the journalist right to refuse divulge the identity of secret source

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Shield laws

Question 22

Socially offensive communications not protected by the First Amendment

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Obscenity

Question 23

Using selective data from polls, government reports, and other sources to support one side of an issue while disregarding information to the contrary

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Card stacking

Question 24

International computer network originally developed by the US Department of Defense

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Internet

Question 25

Organization that licenses and regulates radio stations

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Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Question 26

The largest labor union

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AFL-CIO

Question 27

Committees formed by special interest groups that raise money and make contributions to specific individuals campaigns or causes

Answer 27

Political Action Committees (PACs)

Question 28

Principal that the government may not suppress a story prior to its publication

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Prior restraint

Question 29

Public opinion polls taken by various polling agencies as voters leaving their polling place

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Exit polls

Question 30

Interest group that is concerned with a particular issue

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Single-interest groups

Question 31

Making broad statements that sound good but lack substance

Answer 31

Glittering generalities

Question 32

Gives the media as well the public broad powers to investigate files of the federal bureaucracy

Answer 32

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

Question 33

Techniques used to select and manipulate information so that it may persuade or influence people effectively

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Propaganda

Question 34

Calling an opponent by a name with a negative connotation

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Name calling