Lack/Hub US Govt Ch 18-19 Test Review – Flashcards
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Interest Groups
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Who supports candidates that are non-nominating?
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NAM
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A business related interest group
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AFL-CIO
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A group that lobbies for measures that benefit labor
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Peer Group Belief
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The set of values and beliefs about a nation and its government that most citizens share
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Polls
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A way of measuring public opinion
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Libel
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False, harmful written statements intended to damage a person's reputation constitutes this.
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Biased Sampling
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Straw Polls
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The Economy
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What issue are labor and business-interest groups concerned with?
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PAC's
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Are required by the Federal Election Campaign Act
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A Universe
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A group to be studied in a scientific poll
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Random Sampling
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The technique that provides an equal chance for everyone in the universe to be selected for a poll
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Information
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The lobbyist's strongest weapon
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Equal Time Doctrine
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Requires stations to give equal airtime to candidates for public office.
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News Release
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A ready-made story prepared by government officials for the press
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Electronic Media
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Examples are radio, tv, and internet
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The President
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He is the major focus of the mass media
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Peer Group
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It is made up of an individual's friends, church, synagogue, and work groups
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Mass Media
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has been called the "fourth branch" of the government
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Cable Television
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it greatly reduced the major television networks' share of viewers
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Representative Sample
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It is a small group of people who are typical of the universe
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News Briefings
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This is when government officials make announcements
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The First Amendment
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protects the media, freedom of speech
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Spot Advertisements
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They are brief, frequent, positive descriptions of a candidate that air on radio and television
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Classifying Information Secret
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It is how the government maintains national security
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Leak
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the release of secret information by anonymous government officials
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Interest groups
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shapers of public policy
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Reelection
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goal of PAC supporting
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Lobbyist's tool
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Information that supports a position
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Federal Election Campaign Act
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PAC regulator
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Goal of foreign interest groups
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Military and Economic Aid; Favorable trade agreements
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Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, Inc.
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public interest group
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Economy
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concern of business interest groups
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Representative Sample
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typical of the universe
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Mass Media
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Fourth branch of the government
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Sierra Club
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environmentally related interest group
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Council for a Livable World
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Independent PAC
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Interest group's goal
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To influence policy
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Political Socialization
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learned political beliefs
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Interest Groups
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Supporters, but not nominators, of candidates
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Lobbying
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the way interest groups influence government
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Moderate
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most Americans
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Straw Poll
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biased sample
