Test #3 Flashcards
When do you friends shape your beliefs the most
Middle school/ high school
Which is the best predictor of what someone’s opinion will be about an issue, candidate or political party?
Race
A question on a poll that pushes you toward one candidate or away from another is called a
Push poll
If you let respondents choose to be in your sample, you are committing what polling error?
Self-selection
Which is the term for the process through which you get your beliefs and values about politics?
Political socialization
Remember stratified sample and why it is better? How do you use this method of sampling?
look at the demographic population and weight them in your sample
Why is it so hard for minor/third parties to get their candidates elected?
Winner take all system
Public campaign financing rules
The Electoral college
Political parties exist in gov but they also exist
in the electorate, which is the voters who consider themselves members
Aiding presidential campaigns and conducting party-building activities is the job of whom?
the national party committees
If someone identifies as a woman of color, which political party are they most likely to vote for?
Democrats
If someone identifies as a white male, which political party are they most likely to vote for?
Republicans
Which is most effective in getting people to the polls
Political parties
Which pair of court cases equated money with speech?
McCutcheon and Citizens United
Which court case said politicians can spend as much of their own money as they want to try to get elected?
Buckley v Valeo
Before 12th Amendment, the President and VP could be elected from opposite parties
True
What is front loading and who does it benefit?
State tend to pick the earliest primary date possible; front runners
Which rule for media companies says you have to give both sides the same amount of time to speak or advertise?
Equal time rule
Who regulates television and airways because they are a public space
The government through the FCC
Which one allowed for more consolidated corporate ownership of media?
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Which method of citing a source says u may reveal nothing about where your info came from (you say, a source said)
On deep background
Has out trust in the media increased or decreased in the last 50 years?
Decreased
Which kind of brief does an interest group file to the Supreme Court, to show their analysis and side of a case
Amicus curiae
Which concept explains how people reap the benefits of others actions, though they did nothing to earn these benefits?
Free rider problem
Which act banned gifts to public officials and put into place tougher disclosure requirements for lobbyists?
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act
If a senator already support the NRA, what else may a lobbyist for this interest group provide for them legally
Info on policies up for debate or votes
We don’t actually elect the president. Instead, a candidate must win 270 ______ ______ votes.
Electoral college
If we didn’t have to work on Election Day because it was a ______, more people would probably vote.
Holiday
Prof. McClain is a huge nerd and loves to watch_____, because it is the most unfiltered coverage of what Congress is up to every day.
CSPAN
This kind of voting, which means members of Congress vote the way their party tells them to, whether or not it’s what they might personally want to do, had increased a ton in the last 20 years.
Partyline
Sadly, only about 55% of Americans choose to ____ in presidential elections.
Vote
When you leave homeless and poor people out of your sample for your poll, you have made a _____ error.
Sampling
The democratic and republican national ________ are responsible for giving us their vision, so that we may decide which party we identify with.
Committees
When a candidate wins an election, they claim a ____, or that since they won, they now get to carry out their (and their party’s) agenda.
Mandate
The AARP is an example of this type of interest group, which is very well-organized and thus very influential.
Economic
_____ polls are when pollsters stand outside polling places and ask people who are leaving who they voted for after they’ve voted.
Exit
When Joe Biden talks to reporters (and us) directly, he is doing a press ______.
Conference
People who follow this religion are more likely to vote for Democrats.
Judaism
When a representative from the NRA talks to members of Congress about supporting gun rights and the 2nd amendment, they are doing what?
Lobbying
The ______ of media ownership is a huge problem for being able to get fair and balanced news reporting.
Consolidation
The political parties are allowed to change their _____ during their national party conventions. This is a list of issues and their stances on them.
Platform
Political knowledge and political participation have a _____ relationship. When you know more, you are more likely to vote.
Reciprocal
one measure of accuracy of a poll; below 4% is considered good.
Margin of error
This is also known as a media effect and happens when the media gets to decide for us what is important enough to report on.
Agenda setting
Online voting would be so awesome, but there are some pretty major ______ concerns.
Security
This news channel is for Spanish speakers, and is a great example of narrowcasting.
Telemundo
How many years must you wait to walk through the revolving door?
Two
Union membership has _____ over the last 20 years.
Declined
In 1932, the election of FDR is what political scientists call a _____ election, because there was a big party realignment around the issue of the state of the economy and the role of the government in economic matters.
Critical
What is FEC?
Federal Election Commission, which is an independent federal agency, created to enforce nation’s election laws
BRCA or McCain Feingold
Included a new set of campaign finance regulations:
- Regulated political ads and funding.
- Set hard limits on campaign contributions from a number of sources
Citizens United v FEC
The SC said the BRCA’s ban on electioneering communications made by corporations was unconstitutional
Corps and unions have now as much power and right to free speech as an individual
McCutcheon v FEC
The SC struck down the aggregate limits on the amount of $$$ individuals may contribute to all federal candidates, parties and PACs combined
Paved the way for increased influence of individual donors
1996 Telecommunications Act
Deregulated the whole segments of the electronic media, so it was supposed to offer people better media services
Allowed companies to take over and create multi-media approach to communicating info and entertainment.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire
Agenda setting
The power of media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems
Collective goods
We all get these things, yet not all people donate for them.
Honest Leadership and Open Government Act
Banned gifts and honoraria to members of Congress and their staff from lobbyists
Tougher disclosure requirements of reporting money that u are paid as lobbyist and money u spend on members of Congress
Longer time limits moving from the fed gov to private lobbying sector
