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| a belief that one can affect government policies |
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| a belief that you are a member of an economic group whose interests are opposed to people in other such groups |
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| the willingness of the state to respond to the citizenry |
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| the ability to understand and take part in politics |
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| a belief that morality and religion ouhgt to be of decisive importance |
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| a distinctive and patterend way of thinking about how political and economic life ought to be carried out |
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| the amount of faith and impact citizens feel or believe they have upon their government. |
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| a belief that personal freedom and solving social problems are more important than religion |
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| people who have a disproportionate amount of some valued resource |
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| the difference in political views between men and women |
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| a standard of right or porper conduct |
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| people who have a disproportionate share of political power |
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| a more or less consistent set of beliefs about what policies government ought to pursue. |
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| process by which background traits influence one's political view. |
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| a survey of public opnion |
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| how people think or feel about particular things |
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| method of selecting from a population in which each person has an equal probability of being selected. |
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| the difference between the results of random samples taken at the same time |
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| people who tend to participate in all forms of politics |
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| Grandfather clause-Jim Crow Laws |
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| a clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirement to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867 |
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| a requirement that citizens show that they can read before registereing to vote |
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| a requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote |
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| people registered to vote |
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| citizens who are eligible to vote at certain age |
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| the practice of keeping blacks from voting in southern states with certain requirements |
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| a law that enables prospective voters to register when they obtain or renew a driver's license. |
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| relatively important in examining political policy, because policies are not only determined by what issues are important to people but also by how important they are. |
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| he amount of public enthusiasm, involvement, awareness of a certainpolitical issue or event by the general public |
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| the state of peace that is experienced in a country, thanks to the activities of the government |
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| polls based on interviews conducted on election day with randomly selected voters |
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| an assessment of public opinion by the questioning of a statistically representative sample |
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| a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution |
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| a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes |
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| a set of policies or issues to be addressed or pursued by an individual or group |
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| A political party platform or platform is a list of the actions which a political party, individual candidate, or other organization supports to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said peoples' candidates voted into political office or complicated topics or issues |
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| a convention of a major political party, esp. one that nominates a candidate for the presidency. |
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| a contribution to a political party that is not accounted as going to a particular candidate, thus avoiding various legal limitations |
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| refers to a ballot on which the voter has chosen candidates from different political parties when multiple offices are being decided by a single election. |
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| party dealignment/realignment |
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| A movement among voters toward nonpartisanship, resulting in a weakening of party structure. A dramatic change in the political system. |
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| a brief presented by someone interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but who is not a party to it |
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| a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group |
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| federal election campaign act |
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| The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 is a United States federal law which increased disclosure of contributions for federal campaigns. It was amended in 1974 to place legal limits on the campaign contributions. |
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| political action committees - 527 groups |
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| any organization in the United States that campaigns for or against political candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. A type of U.S. tax-exempt organization named after Section 527 of the U.S. A 527 group is created primarily to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office. |
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| he constitutional amendment passed after the Civil War that guaranteed blacks the right to vote. This amendment affected not only freed slaves in the South, but also blacks living in the North, who generally had not been allowed to vote |
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| The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax |
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| The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen. |
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| efers to the structure of two (or more) cleavages, such as race, political, religious divisions etc., in society. |
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| Universal manhood suffrage |
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| a form of voting rights in which all adult males within a political system are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification. |
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| the solid south/battlegroun states |
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| the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) to 1964 (the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964). |
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| one driven by the politics of a community |
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| The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties. The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates |
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| a period of time during which there is one dominant majority party that wins all elections. |
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| (un)conventional political participation |
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| riots, protest, violence etc. |
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| a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement, especially in the United States. |
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| the practice of a politician soliciting in person for votes from the public. |
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| methods of gaining political advantage |
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| a standard speech used by a politician running for office. |
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