Government - TEST 3 Flashcards
What is public opinion?
The views of the citizenry about politics, public issues, and public policies. A complex collection of opinions held by many people on issues in the public arena.
What is political Socialization?
The learning process through which most people acquire their political attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and knowledge.
What are agents of socialization?
People and institutions that influence the political views of others.
What is public opinion poll?
consists of a set of “interviews” with people selected to be representative of a population of interest.
What is a sample?
In the context of opinion polling, a group of people selected to represent the population being studied.
What are factors effecting voter turn out?
Class, Religion, Gender, Age, Race,Eduction, Maritial status/family, laws
What is negative partisanship?
is the tendency of some voters to form their political opinions primarily in opposition to political parties they dislike.
What is polarization?
is the divergence of political attitudes away from the center, towards ideological extremes
What is general election?
A regularly scheduled election to choose the U.S. president, vice president, and senators and representatives in Congress. General elections are held in even-numbered years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
What is Austrailian ballot?
A secret ballot that is prepared, distributed, and counted by government officials at public expense. Used by all states in the United States since 1888.
What is Elector?
In American politics, a member of the electoral college.
What is electoral college?
The group of electors who are selected by the voters in each state to officially elect the president and vice president. The number of electors in each state is equal to the number of that state’s representatives in both chambers of Congress.
What is winner take all system?
A system in which the candidate who receives the most votes wins. In contrast, proportional systems allocate votes to multiple winners.
What is nominating convention?
An official meeting of a political party to choose its candidates. Nominating conventions at the state and local levels also select delegates to represent the citizens of their geographic areas at a higher-level party convention.
What is delegate?
A person selected to represent the people of one geographic area at a party convention.
What is primary election?
An election in which voters choose the candidates of their party, who will then run in the general election.
What is open primary?
A primary in which voters can vote for a party’s candidates regardless of whether they belong to the party.
What is closed primary?
A primary in which only party members can vote to choose that party’s candidates.
What is invisible primary?
begins when a candidate formally announces their plans to run for office.
It’s an opportunity to find out how much support they can gather before the actual primary race gets underway.
It can often make or break candidates – candidates who don’t get enough shows of support often end up bowing out of the race, sometimes before the primary season even begins.
What is caucus?
A meeting held to choose political candidates or delegates.
What is front loading?
the moving up of presidential primaries and caucuses by states, thereby increasing their influence in the selection of a party’s candidate. As a result, presidential nominees are often determined early in the election year.
What is FECA
Federal Election Compaign Act - is the primary United States federal law regulating political campaign fundraising and spending.
What is Buckley v Valeo?
legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 30, 1976, struck down provisions of the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)—as amended in 1974—that had imposed limits on various types of expenditures by or on behalf of candidates for federal office.
What is citizens United vs FEC?
case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 21, 2010, ruled (5–4) that laws that prevented corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds for independent “electioneering communications” (political advertising) violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
What is McCutcheon vs FEC?
On April 2, 2014, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in that struck down the aggregate limits on the amount an individual may contribute during a two-year period to all federal candidates, parties and political action committees combined.
What is mass media?
Communication channels, such as newspapers and radio and television broadcasts, through which people can communicate to large audiences.
