Test 3C Flashcards
Meeting of a major party that are used to elect Pres. and VP candidates amd agenda setting for the party.
National Convention
Closed door congressional meetings to elect the next president and vice president.
King Caucus
A preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party or selecting candidates for future office.
Primaries
California’s change from a closed primary to a blanket primary.
Proposition 198
A primary election in which voters can select several candidates of different parties without regard to their own political parties.
Blanket Primary
The party gets to decide whether or not unaffiliated voters can vote in the primary.
Modified Closed Primary
An electoral system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.
Proportional Representation
A rule under which a delegation to a national political convention casts its entire vote as a unit as determined by a majority vote.
Unit Rule
An unelected delegate who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party’s national convention.
Superdelegate
Keeps third parties out of the electorate.
Two Constituencies Problem
The time between the first candidates announcing their run for the presidency and their first primary.
Invisible Primary
Any government race in which the previous holder of the position is not running for the seat.
Open Seat
Limits the president to two four year terms.
22nd Amendment
Filling a district with your opponents supporters so he wins the district by a very large margin.
Packing
The spreading of your opponents constituents and dividing them amongst the districts so that you win those districts while he is barely losing.
Cracking
Maximizing the opponents wasted votes by only putting a large enough minority of them to lose the district by a small percentage.
Wasted Vote Effect
A person who refuses change.
Standpatters
Advertisements used to persuade the people to change their opinions or behavior rather than to sell them something.
Issue Advertisements
The idea that elected representatives in democracies should represent not only the expressed preferences of their constituencies but also for issues politically relevant.
Descriptive Representation
Something visible that by association represents something else that is invisible.
Symbolic Representation
The trading of favors, often of votes to have actions passed in congress.
Logrolling
The process of establishing a practice as a norm.
Institutionalization
