APGOV: Unit 5

An organized group that attempts to influence government by electing its members to office.

• Plurality
• Political parties
• political party
• political efficacy

The process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office.

• Sound bite
• nomination
• Media bias
• Plurality

ongoing payments in a loan

• Sound bite
• Dark money
• War chest
• Hard money

nonprofit donation that turn out to be financing elections

• Hard money
• Dark money
• War chest
• Dealignment

Campaign advertising that criticizes a candidate's opponent-typically by making potentially damaging claims about the opponents background or record- rather than focusing on positive reasons to vote for the candidate

• Media bias
• Issue ads
• 501(c)3s
• Attack ads

ads that focus on issues and do not explicitly encourage citizens to vote for a certain candidate

• Case law
• SuperPACs
• Issue ads
• Attack ads

Expenses on behalf of a political message that are made by groups that are uncoordinated with any candidate's campaign.

• Open primaries
• Independent expenditures
• Interest groups
• Independent candidate

requires candidates to say "I approve this message"

• "Stand by Your Ad" provision
• Party Chairperson
• Religious affiliation
• Adversarial press

A committee set up by a corporation, labor union, or interest group that raises and spends campaign money from voluntary donations

• political participation
• Political parties
• political efficacy
• Political Action Committees (PACs)

a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates.

• Delegate
• SuperPACs
• suffrage
• Issue ads