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| What 3 ways do elections cut down on agency loss? |
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| It gives ordinary ppl a say in who represnts them, future elections give office holders incentive to be responsive agents, provide incentives for those who want to change who is in office to pay close attention to the representative and tell others about thier misconduct |
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| gave women the right to vote |
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| lowered the voting age of citizens to eighteen years |
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| What provoked the 26th amendment? |
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| What happened to the number of ppl voting between 1968 and 1972? |
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| There was a sharp decline and since then only about 58 percent of the eligible electorate has bothered to register and vote |
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| What are the individual factors affecting turnout? |
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| education, age, race, gender, communitiy roots and internal efficacy |
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| What 2 trends countered the effect of eased registration laws and increased education? |
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| Voting age and increase in mobility |
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| What is the best explanation for the decrease in turnout over time? |
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| The decline in moblization by parties, intrest groups and campaigns |
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| what are the 3 factors that determine whether someone votes? |
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| ppl vote if they can, ppl vote if they want to, ppl vote if they are asked to |
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| examples of cognitive short cuts |
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| issues that you feel strongly about, ques from leaders in your community, party ques |
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| how is the party in power doing or if you are a member of a particular party you tend to believe the canidate |
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| what does party label provide useful info for? |
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| performance voting and issue voting |
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| what are the basic necessities of a campaign? |
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| a candidate, a message and a way to inform voters about both |
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| What are the 4 basics that a successful campaign comes down to? |
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| What is the main goal: to win, put the electorate into 3 categories, appeal to 2 of the categories, a simple cohearent repetitive campaign theme that explains both why the candidate should be elected |
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| What is the diff between attack ads and contrast ads? |
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| In attack ads the candidate running the ad usually isnt in in and in contrast ads the other candidate is being portrayed in a negative light n saying this candidate is better |
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| What is the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971? |
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| Any time a group gives money to a campaign it must be fully disclosed to the FEC also established a federal election sommission to enforce the law and to collect and publish detailed info on campaign contributions and expenditures. |
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| a person can spend as much money as they want on their party because it is limiting free speach to limit spending and a person can contribute as much money as they want to a canidate |
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| totally unregulated until 2002, unlimited spending for state and local party building |
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| 2002 bipartisan campaign finance reform act |
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| All money must be disclosed and regulated |
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| spending on behalf of the canidate in conjunction with the campaign |
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| any spending on behalf of a candidate but not in conjunction with the candidate's campaign |
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| any spending on behalf of a candidate but not in conjunction with the candidate |
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| What kind of races get the most money? |
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| what do coordinated expenditures pay for? |
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| polling, producing ads and conducting reasearch on the opposition |
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| What do independent expenditures pay for> |
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| Organized sets of political attitudes that come from a set of core values |
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| Liberals favor using government to... |
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| reduce economice inequality, champion the rights of the disadvataged and tolorate a more diverse range of social behavior |
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| Conservatives use the govenment for... |
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| private enterprise and free markets, to enforce traditional moral standards. |
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| The process by which citzens acquire political attitudes and beliefs |
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| People adopt values that: |
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| confirm their identity with a group, please ppl that are important to them, and make the world comprehensible |
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| the quantity and organization of a person’s political cognitions |
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| What is the biggest gap on issues related to? |
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| organization of parties pays off when |
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| choices are made by voting, action requires winning majorities on a continuing basis in diff levels of gov't |
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| What are the 3 parts of the party system? |
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| the party in gov't, the party org and the party in electorate |
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| If a person's party candidate has no chance to win in a 3 party system they will turn to the less objectionable of the major two party candidates who does have a chance to win |
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| What were the 2 opposing factions in the first few congress'? |
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| The Hamilton faction and the Jefferson/Madison faction |
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| confidential because when you vote for a diff party it is not readily distinguishable. The ballot that is still used today |
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| The peoples party platform |
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| adopted by the democrats- against railroad rates and the gold standard |
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| Who did the New Deal appeal to? |
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| White segregationist and northern african americans, progressive intelectuals and machine politics, union memebers and poor farmers, catholics and baptist |
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| Who did the Republican coalition appeal to? |
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| Buisness and professionl ppl, upper income protestants, residents of small towns in the northeast and midwest |
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| What happens to the party when issues split the existing party coalitions? |
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| party line voting is declined, ticket splitting increased, divided govt, more volitle electorate |
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| What was the second party system? |
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| organizational innovation, national party convention and the era of good feelings |
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| The emergence of the Republican Party |
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| Republican Ascendancy, rise of the ppls party platform |
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