Topic Three Exam Review

Political Culture, Public Opinion, Media, Interest Groups, Parties, Voting and Elections

15th Amendment

Grants citizens the right to vote

Retail Trade Associations

Seeking to protect and promote interests of member businesses involved in the sales of goods and services.

Free Rider Problem

Benefiting from collective goods without contributing to anything or the cost.

13th Amendment

Gets rid of slavery

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th Amendment

Established national citizenship

14th Amendment

What political party was formed the most recently?

The Republican Party

What amendment did Texas ratify in 1919?

19th Amendment

Which one is not a conventional form of political participation?

Arguing with your family on holiday.

Believed in more power in the federal government

Federalist Party

What makes you more likely to vote?

Civic Duty

Latino’s

The fastest growing voting demographic

Why is there low voter turnout in America?

Registration and frequency of elections

Campaigns are party and candidate centered.

True

Duverger’s Law

Political theory that plurality wins, not the majority. More votes than everyone else.

_____ people are less likely to vote, ____ people are more likely to vote.

A social movement that didn’t happen in America

Brexit

Electorate

All the people who can vote or are qualified to.

Reform Parties

Believe that politics are corrupt

By the end of the Civil War, the ______ party moved from minority to a majority party.

Republican

Federalist Party

Alexander Hamilton

Fractional Party

Break off of bigger political parties

The principal/primary medium party right now is ____, but in the future, analysts say it’ll be ________.

TV, the Internet

Grass- Roots Party

Continue to go up from local to state organizations, then influence the federal government.

_____ is a public good.

Air

Democrats are most likely to support

National Healthcare Expansion

America’s two party system is a _________.

Exception, not a rule

The American Conservative Union is an example of a ________________.

Ideological Group

Democratic Republicans

Thomas Jefferson

Republicans are most likely to support

A ban on abortions

Andrew Jackson organized the ______ party.

Grassroots

Packaging

Political consultants sell politicians to you.

An example of the media not performing watchdog function:

soft/sensational media

Most democracies have a ____________.

Multi- Party System

Multiparty System

Democratic System in which 3 or more parties have the capacity to gain control of the government; either separately or in a coalition (most democracies have this).

Iron Triangle

A small and informal but relatively stable set of bureaucrats, legislatures and lobbyists who seek to develop policies beneficial to a particular interest.

Jacksonian party breaking off from the Democratic Party is an example of ____.

Fractional Party

Nomination

Formal selection of an individual

Suffrage

the right to vote in public elections

Inside Lobbying

Contact with someone outside the three branches of government.

Interest Groups

Any organization that actively seeks to influence public policy.

Economic Groups

Most fully an effectively organized

Multi-Party System

Campaigns can make a huge impact on state’s political parties.

False

Outside Lobbying

Working with the public and telling the public to influence the government.