POLS 2312 Exam 3 Review

Number of counties in Texas

254 counties

Motor Voter Act

allows citizens to register to vote when applying for or renewing their driver's license.

Texas voter residency requirement

resident for 30+ days

Texas rank in 2020 voter turnout

#51 (last)

Blanket primary aka wide open or jungle

a primary election in which each voter may vote for candidates from both parties

First state total vote by mail

Oregon

Casework

the process of solving problems for constituents

Roll-off voting

The process where voters will mark off only the "more important" offices on a ballot and leave the lower level offices blank

Amount Abbott spent per vote in 2018

over a quarter million dollars

contribution disclosure

the reporting of who contributes money to a campaign and how much is contributed by an individual, group, or corporation
-must disclose anything over $50

Open primary

electoral contest in which voters are not required to declare a party affiliation to participate but must request a specific party's ballot at the primary; voters are subsequently barred from participating in the other party's primary

World War I contribution accusations

guy running for texas governer is accused of being a german sympathizer because he accepted money from Kaiser Wilhelm

Number of television markets in Texas

20

Populist Party aka

People's Party

Whig Party collapse

collapsed due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
created the Republican party

George Parr

The Parr Machine functioned on bribery, graft, and illegal donations. Political support came from southern counties in Texas. The machine could produce large numbers of votes, both legal and illegal, from the impoverished and uneducated working-class Mexican-Americans. called Duke of Duval

State with highest voter turnout in 2020

Minnesota

Delegate allocation

process by which party rules designate how many of the state's delegates to the national party convention will be pledged to vote for a specific candidate or will attend as undecided

Runoff primary

primary that occurs if no nominee receives the required majority of the votes in the primary; the top two finishers face off in a second primary to determine the nominee for the general election

Percentage of Texans that claim to be moderate

13%

President with close association to patronage system

Andrew Jackson

When county or senatorial convention is held

held on the third Saturday after the primary election.

Single issue interest group

a group that is interested primarily in one area of public policy
National rifle Association

State with earliest caucus

Iowa

Solidarity benefit

The social interactions that individuals enjoy from joining a group and from working together for a common cause.
Advantages from preexisting social networks.

Disturbance theory

theory of group formation that states that as societies become more complex and more diverse, new interests emerge to voice their concerns, prompting established interests to mobilize to protect the status quo.

Matt Rinaldi

Chairman of the Texas Republican Party

Gilberto Hinojosa

Chairman of the Texas Democratic Party

Site of 2024 Texas GOP convention

Henry B. González Convention Center (San Antonio)

Site of 2024 Texas Democratic convention

El Paso Convention Center

Robert Dahl pluralism book

book is called "Who Governs?"
He established the pluralist theory of democracy—in which political outcomes are enacted through competitive, if unequal, interest groups—and introduced "polyarchy" as a descriptor of actual democratic governance

AFL-CIO

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Tarrant Appraisal District website hack

demanded $700,000 ransom

Texas Municipal League

professional association and lobbying arm for city governments
all texas cities lobby for it

Dark money

Money spent on political activities by a nonprofit organization that does not have to report its sources of funding.

T Boone Pickens

Wealthy oil man and corporate raider who gave away millions of dollars to GOP passed away

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins

big fights with the governor

Dillon's rule

The principle that regardless of the type of local government, all local governments are creatures of the state government and have only those powers specifically granted to them by the state.

Terms for school board members

4 year terms

State with highest number of local governments

Illinois

State with lowest number of local governments

Hawaii

Number of elected county commissioners per county

4

Duties of county commissioner

Governing ordinances, Tax types and rates, Annual county budget, Maintenance of roads and bridges, Alcoholic beverage control policy

Population needed to be home rule city

5,000+ people

Hurricane in 1900 that killed 8,000+ people

Galveston Hurricane

Houston and zoning

largest city in Texas that has few zoning laws

Denton and hydraulic fracking

Denton voted against hydraulic franking but Texas said you cant stop it its in state limits

Municipal bonds

tax-exempt bonds issued by state and local governments

Tommy Vandergriff

Texas Legend, Mayor of Arlington in 1951, UTA alum

MUDS

municipal utility districts
supply sewer and water