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| 8105937950 | Dye's Policymaking Process | Problem Identification Agenda Setting Policy Formulation Policy Legitimization Policy Implementation Policy Evaluation | 0 | |
| 8105953213 | Problem Identification | Publicizing societal problems and demands fro government action | 1 | |
| 8105956979 | Agenda Setting | Deciding what issues will be addressed | 2 | |
| 8105959125 | Policy Formulation | Developing policy proposals to resolve issues | 3 | |
| 8105962909 | Policy Legitimization | Getting support and enacting it into law | 4 | |
| 8105965523 | Policy Implementation | Organizing departments and agencies | 5 | |
| 8105967513 | Policy Evaluation | Report outputs and evaluate impacts | 6 | |
| 8105978171 | Political Elite Public Opinion The Media | Who are the most critical actors in the policymaking process, according to Dye? | 7 | |
| 8105984780 | Political Elite | People, institutions, and interest groups "on top" are used as mouthpieces and have money to influence the media and policy | 8 | |
| 8105990067 | Public Opinion | Representative of the views of the American people. Citizens view on politics and government action | 9 | |
| 8105998406 | Latent Opinion | Opinions formed on the spot when it is needed | 10 | |
| 8106014177 | RAS Model | Receive Accept Survey. Attempts to explain systematic and random change of opinion | 11 | |
| 8106023574 | Thermostatic Model | 12 | ||
| 8106045165 | Filtering | The influence on public opinion that results from journalist's and editor's decisions about which of many potential news stories to report | 13 | |
| 8106065377 | Priming | The influence on the public's general impressions caused by positive or negative coverage of a candidate or issue | 14 | |
| 8106070273 | Slant | The imbalance in a story that covers one candidate or policy favorably without providing similar coverage to the other side | 15 | |
| 8106096115 | Framing | The influence on public opinion caused by the way a story is presented or covered, including the details explanation, and context offered in the report | 16 | |
| 8106102702 | Credence Good | Goods whose quality is difficult to assess before or after purchase and use | 17 | |
| 8106121083 | Interest Groups | An organization that seeks to influence government policy by helping to elect candidates who support their policy goals and by lobbying elected officials and bureaucrats | 18 | |
| 8106126123 | Lobbying | Efforts to influence public policy through contact with public officials on behalf of an interest group | 19 | |
| 8106133228 | Collective Action Problem | A situation in which members of a group would benefit from working together to produce some outcome, but each individual is better off refusing to cooperate and reaping the benefits from those who do the work | 20 | |
| 8106139174 | Selective Incentives | Benefits that can motivate participation in a group effort because they are available only to those who participate such as member services offered by interest groups | 21 | |
| 8106149551 | Inside Strategy | The tactics employed in D.C. by interest groups seeking to achieve their goals | 22 | |
| 8106220346 | Outside Strategy | The tactics employed outside D.C. to achieve policy goals | 23 | |
| 8106223199 | Scope of Conflict | 24 | ||
| 8106225107 | Iron Triangle | 25 | ||
| 8106225108 | Median Voter | 26 | ||
| 8106226894 | Hard Money | Donations used to elect or defeat a specific candidate | 27 | |
| 8106231095 | Soft Money | Donations used for voter mobilization or to promote policy proposals as long as these efforts are not tied to support of defeating a particular candidate | 28 | |
| 8106236255 | Primary | A ballot vote in which citizens select a party's nominee for general election | 29 | |
| 8106246730 | Caucus | A local meeting in which party members select a party's nominee for general election | 30 | |
| 8106250907 | Electoral College | The body that votes for the President based on popular vote in each state | 31 | |
| 8106257762 | Swing State | A US state in which two major political parties have similar levels of support, resulting in the state being viewed as important for presidential elections | 32 | |
| 8106268185 | Retrospective Evaluation | Evaluating a policy after its implementation | 33 | |
| 8112360722 | Party Organization | Involves the structure of the national, state, and local parties, including poarty leaders and workers | 34 | |
| 8112371919 | Party in Government | Made up of the politicians who were elected as canidates of the party | 35 | |
| 8112386061 | Party in the Electorate | Includes all citizens who identify with the party | 36 | |
| 8112404188 | Unified Government | A situation in which one major party holds the majority in Congress, Senate, and Presidency | 37 | |
| 8112417310 | Divided Government | A situation in which at least Congress, Senate, or Presidency is dominated by a party different than the other branches | 38 | |
| 8112432686 | Duverger's Law | The principle that in democracy with single-member districts and plurality voting, only two parties canidates will have a realistic chance of winning political office | 39 | |
| 8112497850 | Party Realignment | A change in the size of composition of the party coalition or in the nature of the issues that divided the parties | 40 | |
| 8112510540 | Party Brands | 41 | ||
| 8112750901 | Election Cycle | 42 | ||
| 8112754328 | GOTV | 43 | ||
| 8112756761 | Paradox of Voting | The question of why citizens vote even though their individual votes stand little chance of changing the election outcome | 44 | |
| 8112764839 | Issue Voter | Someone who casts their vote in elections based on political issues | 45 | |
| 8112771942 | Voting Cues | Pieces of information about a candidate that are readily available, easy to interpret, and lead to a citizen to decide to vote for a particular candidate | 46 |
