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CHAPTER 5 Parties and Interest Groups
1) Political parties are organizations that choose, support, and nominate ________ for elected offices.
2) What is political disaffection?
3) Political parties ________ (are/are not) as dominant in American life as they once were.
4) What are three types of support that political parties provide to the candidates they recruit?
5) Candidates from either ________ are capable of winning statewide offices in nearly every state.
6) In the United States the national Republican and Democratic parties are essentially made up of ________ parties.
7) (Political parties) are conglomerations of people who share some overlapping ideology, or set of political , economic , and social ________ .
8) Political parties remain different from other groups that participate in the political process, including ________ ________.
9) Individuals who are not consistently loyal to candidates of any one party are called ________ voters.
10) Voter identification is a situation when a voter consistently identifies strongly with ________ of the parties.
11) The theory that political parties offer clear policy choices to voters, try to deliver on those policies when they take office, and are held accountable by voters for the success or failure of those policies, is called the ________ ________ model.
12) Many of the social services now provided by local governments, such as food assistance and job placement services, where the province of ________ ________ throughout much of the nineteenth century.
13) The "party machine" philosophy was that (government) offices exist not as a necessary means of administrating government but for the support of ________ ________ at public expense.
14) Political organizations controlled by a small number of people and run for selfish or partisan ends are called ________ ________.
15) The ability of elected officials or party leaders to hand out jobs to their friends and supporters, rather than hiring based on merit, is called ________.
16) Elections that determine a party's nominees for offices and general elections against the other party's nominee are called ________ elections.
17) The decisive elections in which all registered voters cast ballots for their preferred nominees for a political office are called ________ elections.
18) Nominating elections in which only voters belonging to that party may participate are called ________ ________.
19) ________ primaries allow independents--and in some cases members of both parties--to vote in any primary they choose.
20) Every Democratic and Republican state party now has a ________-________ chair or executive director.
21) Most municipal governments are organized on a ________ (partisan/nonpartisan) basis.
22) All but one state legislature is organized by party. This means that the party that holds a ________ of the seats controls the leadership, schedule, and agenda.
23) Groups formed for the purpose of raising money to elect or defeat political candidates are called ________ ________ ________.
24) Money that is not subject to federal regulation that can be raised and spent by state parties is called ________ money.
25) In 2002, Congress enacted campaign finance laws which block the national parties from collecting ________ money donations.
26) The U.S. Supreme Court has held that political expenditures are equivalent to ________ ________.
27) Politics and government determine the allocation of goods and values in society. Those goods and values are critical to the success or failure of the hundreds of ________ ________ and millions of ________.
28) What are the two primary reasons for the decline of one-party dominance in nearly every state?
29) Democrats are generally more ________, favoring government solutions to social problems, while Republicans are generally more ________, preferring a limited role for government.
30) Both major parties court the elderly because senior citizens ________.
31) State politicians never hesitate to cut state aid to universities and pass along college costs to students because only ________ percent of 18 to 30 year-olds voted in the November 2002 elections.
32) Major parties try to appeal to as much of the ________ as possible.
33) The major reason why voters have become more independent in recent decades is a belief by many Americans that politicians are more interested in preserving ________ than doing the right thing.
34) A significant institutional advantage for the major parties in the United States is the ________-________-________ system in which the highest vote-getter wins.
35) Some people believe that a third-party candidate will never be anything more than a ________ who deprives major party candidates of needed votes.
36) When voters vote for different parties' nominees for different offices it is called ________ ________.
37) A mid-1990's poll found an average of ________ percent calling themselves Democrats, ________ percent Republicans, and ________ percent independents.
38) What are the five basic types (flavors) of interest groups?
39) Legislators often rely on lobbyist to provide them with ________.
40) Interest groups as a whole give most of their support to ________.
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