Chapter 5 6 7 And 13 Flashcards
A _____ _______ is a small group of persons who seek to control government through winning elections and holding public offices.
Political Party
A __________ is an alliance, especially a temporary one, of people factions, parties, or nations.
Coalition
A general agreement among various groups on fundamental needs is a(n) __________ .
Consensus
People belong to a particular ___________ _______ because an ancestor chose to the party for the family.
Political party
A _______ / ________ party id one that is less supported in the political system.
Minor/third
An increasing number of Americans identify with _____/______ parties.
Minor/third
Most single-issue parties are _____ -Lived.
Short
An example of an economic protest party, formed because of the huge budget deficit in 1992, and because an official political party in 1996 is the ______ party.
Reform
The communist and socialist are examples of a(n) ____________ party.
Ideological
A ____ - party system exist in nearly all dictatorships today.
One
Democrats and republicans ____________ third party ideas, or make those ideas part of their won.
Assimilate
The right to vote is known as _________.
Suffrage
The procedure of voter identification intended to prevent fraudulent voting is called __________.
Registration
The _____th amendment was intended to secure the rights of African Americans to vote but did not, primarily because the federal government did not intervene to uphold the Amendment.
15th
____ _____ was a tax payment system required by some states before a person was allowed to vote. This method limited voting rights.
Poll Tax
Women received the right to vote through the ___th amendment.
19th
Poll taxes, literacy test, and threats have all been used in the past to keep ________-americans from voting
African
Turnouts are lower in ___-year elections, primaries and special elections that in _________-year elections.
Off : presidential
Political ________- is the process by which people gain their attitudes and opinions about politics.
Socialization
Voter turnout in the president elections steadily declined between ____ (year) elections and 2000; but has seen a significant increase in voter turnout in 2004, 2008, and 2012.
1960
Today most states require all voter be _________ of the U.S. and a __________ of the state in which they vote.
Citizen ; resident
Voting for candidates of both parties during the same election is known as ______-_______ voting
Split-ticket
__________ _________ is the feeling/perception that you personally can influence politics and the workings of the government.
Political efficacy
In federal elections a candidate need not obtain a majority of votes to win an office. They simply need to have the most voted cast for a single office. This kind of vote is known as ____________.
Plurality
Only declared party members may vote in a(n) ___________ primary election to so that only loyal party members influence the outcome of the primary.
Closed
The practice of voting for candidates of only one party is called __________-_________ voting.
Straight -ticket
Aliens, the mentally handicapped and convicted felons are considered ________ - ________ because they have a legitimate reason that does not allow them to vote.
Cannot-voters
A person that voted for president and not for governor on the ballot is called a ______-______ voter.
Non-voting
Because some ballots can be very long, voters often cast fewer votes the further down the ballot they go. This phenomenon is known as ______ ________
Ballot fatigue
The single most predictor of a persons partisan voting behavior is the membership in one of the two major _________ in the USA.
Parties
Party identification has _____ in strength in recent years.
Decreased
Voters age, race, religion, etc. are ____________ factors affecting how a voter will vote.
Sociological
Perception of politics and candidates and issues, as well as party identification are all _____________ factors that influence voting.
Psychological
Split-ticket voting has ___________ in recent years.
Increased
The most significant reason for non-voting in the U.S. today is due to _______ also known as LACK OF ________
Apathy; interest
________-______ ballots tent to encourage straight0ticketed voting.
Party column
Today most states including Kansas use the ________-_______ ballot where candidates are grouped together under the title of the office they are running for.
Office group
A ______ is the smallest geographic units of election administration and your polling place is found within this unit.
Precinct
The ____ is used by voter to register their choice in an election.
Ballot
The political arm of special interest groups that have a major stake in public policy and raise money only for their members to fund political campaigns is called : ________ ________ committee, or PACs for short.
Political action
The largest sum of money spent during political campaigns is spent on _________ time.
Television
If a minor party candidate wishes to have their name appear in a ballot some states require a _________, which contains signatures of registration voters who say they want to nominate the candidate for political office.
Petition
The general election for president take place in ________ of that year and the formal election for the president tale place in _________ when electoral col;eve ballots are opened and counted before the united Staes senate.
November;January
One of the major defects of the electoral college is that the winner of the _____ vote, nationally, may not win a majority of votes in the Electoral College.
Popular
Traditional poltical spectrum
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49. _________ Moderate 51. ____________
50. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. 52. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
- Radical
- Liberal
- Conservative
- Reactionary
Isms political spectrum
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53._______________. 55. ________________. Monarchy
54. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. 56. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
- Communism
- Socialism
- Democracy
- Facism
To win the presidency of the United States the candidate must win _______ of the 538 electoral college votes.
270
If there is a tie in the Electoral college the presidential election is decided in the United States ____________ ___ ______ where each states gets one vote an the candidate with a 26 of 50 votes wins.
House of reps
Another defect in the electoral college is the potential for the “___________ _________” who does not cast their vote for the candidate they pledged to vote for because they are not required to by law.
Faithless elector
The formula for determining how many electoral college votes each sate receives is based on the number of ______________ from the US and senate each state has.
Representatives
