What are groups of self-interested people?

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Voluntary association of people who come together with the goal of getting the policies that they favor enacted.

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What is a person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try and influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.

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What is the movement of individuals between government and lobbying positions?

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What are coordinated and mutually beneficial activities of the bureaucracy, Congress, and interest groups to achieve shared policy goals?

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The (a)   is an organization that raises money for candidates and campaign.

A (a)   is a type of ballot on which all candidates are listed under the office for which they are running, making split-ticket voting easier.

A (a)   is a type of ballot that encourages party-line voting by listing all of a party's candidates in a column under the party name.

A (a)   person is not biased, especially toward any particular political group.

What is the name of the system of government appointment where officials are given jobs based on whether or not they supported the victorious political party?

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What type of money is donated to political parties in a way that leaves the contribution unregulated?

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Meetings run by political parties that are held at the county, district, or precinct level.

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A form of election in which voters directly choose a political party's candidate for office.

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A primary election in which any registered voter can vote in any party's primary

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A primary election where only voters registered for the party which is holding the primary may vote.

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A system of elections in which the candidates who wins the plurality of votes within a state receives all of that state's votes within the Electoral College.

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An election system for a legislature in which citizens vote for parties, rather than individuals, and parties are represented in the legislature according to the percentage of the vote they receive.

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Minor political parties in competition with the two major parties

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A situation that occurs when control of the presidency and one or both chambers of Congress is split between the two major parties.

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Idea that may suggest people are moving away from the two political parties and moving towards the idea of indifference.

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A constitutionally required process for selecting the president through slates of electors chosen in each state, who are pledged to vote for a nominee in the presidential election.

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An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other, so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted

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The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot, especially the president.

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A meeting where delegates officially select their party's nominee for the presidency

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A United States federal law that increased disclosure of contributions for federal campaigns, and amended in 1974 to place legal limits on the campaign contributions

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A case in which the SCOTUS upheld federal limits on campaign contributions and ruled that spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free speech.

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Comprehensive communication campaign strategy and tactics that advocate for, against, or to neutralize a policy issue that is designed to impact a business, association, or individual.

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The case where the Court held that the 1st Amendment protects the publication of all statements, even false ones, about the conduct of public officials except when the statements are made with actual malice.

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Sources of information that appeal to a wide audience, including newspapers, radio, television, and internet outlets.

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Media programming on a cable TV or the internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed at a particular audience, in contrast to broadcasting.

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Television news presented in a sensationalist manner, intended more to entertain than to inform

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Press calls attention to certain issues, the media sets the subjects that politicians must address.

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The way the media influences what issues the public considers important enough to address through the government

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The way politicians or interest group leaders define an issue when presenting it to others

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The process of developing and recording measures of the budgetary effects of proposed and enacted legislation.

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The role played by the national media in investigating political personalities and exposing scandals.

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The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.

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The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.

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Divisions of audiences into small groups due to the wide spectrum of media outlets.

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