unit 5

Question 1

rational choice voting

Answer 1

informed voter who makes decisions based on perceived best interests

Question 2

retrospective voting

Answer 2

based on incumbent candidate or party track record

Question 3

prospective voting

Answer 3

based on prediction of candidate performance

Question 4

party-line voting

Answer 4

voting for someone based on their political party

Question 5

winner-takes-all system

Answer 5

makes it nearly impossible for third parties to get elected. party of the losing candidate gets no representation in govt, no matter how many votes they got.

Question 6

caucuses

Answer 6

local party members meet and vote publicly on the candidate they will support

Question 7

primaries

Answer 7

voters cast ballots–> choose party’s candidate

Question 8

closed primary

Answer 8

only voters registered to that party may participate

Question 9

open primary

Answer 9

voters of all backgrounds can participate

Question 10

incumbent advantage

Answer 10

necessary for candidate. advantage that the incumbent (individ currently holding office) candidate has over the challenger candidate

Question 11

national party conventions (dnc/rnc)

Answer 11

where the final candidate for the dem/republic accept the party nomination

Question 12

electoral college

Answer 12

a group selected by the states to elect the president and the vice president, in which each state’s number of electors is equal to number of senators and reps in congress

Question 13

general election

Answer 13

determines which candidates will occupy the offices that are up for election

Question 14

bipartisan campaign reform act

Answer 14

• effort to ban soft money
• limited independent expenditures
• raised individual contribution amounts
• reduce attack ads w a stand by your ad approval message provision

Question 15

Pac

Answer 15

an organization that collects political donations from its members and uses the funds to influence an election

Question 16

connected pacs

Answer 16

corps, labor unions, trade unions

Question 17

non connected pacs

Answer 17

no sponsoring organization, issue based

Question 18

leadership pacs

Answer 18

candidate created/based

Question 19

super pacs

Answer 19

independent expenditure only committees; organizations that may raise unlimited sums of $ to advocate for/against a candidate or party but cannot coordinate w a candidate

Question 20

linkage institutions

Answer 20

connects people to govt
- political parties, interest groups, media, elections

Question 21

barriers impeding third party success

Answer 21

• winner takes al system and electoral college
• generally candidate/issue centered, not appealing to broad group of ppl
• money