Final v2.2

Question 1

Minority Majority

Answer 1

The situation, likely beginning in the mid-twenty-first century, in which the non-Hispanic whites will represent a minority of the U.S. population and minority groups together will represent a majority

Question 2

Civil Disobedience

Answer 2

A form of political participation based on a conscious decision to break a law believed to be unjust and to suffer the consequences.

Question 3

Political Socialization

Answer 3

The process through which individuals in a society acquire political attitudes, views, and knowledge, based on inputs from family, schools, the media, and others

Question 4

Motor Voter Act

Answer 4

Requires states to permit people to register to vote at the same time they apply for their driver’s license. Passed in 1993, this act went into effect for the 1996 election.

Question 5

Linkage Institution

Answer 5

The channels through which people’s concerns become political issues on the government’s policy agenda. In the US, linkage institutions include elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media.

Question 6

Patronage

Answer 6

One of the key inducements used by party machines. A patronage job, promotion, or contract is one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone.

Question 7

Closed Primaries

Answer 7

Elections to select party nominees in which only people who have registered in advance with the party can vote for that party’s candidates, thus encouraging greater party loyalty.

Question 8

Proportional Representation

Answer 8

An electoral system used throughout most of Europe that awards legislative seats to political parties in proportion to the number of votes won in an election.