2161988074 | Broadcast media | television,radio, or media that transmit audio and or video content to the public. | 0 | |
2162010754 | Media Monopoly | The ownership and control of the media by a few large corporations. | 1 | |
2162295866 | Agenda setting | The power of the media to bring public attention to particular issues and problems. | 2 | |
2162309846 | What are political Parties? | -Increase political participation - organize congressional business | 3 | |
2162314613 | Citizen Journalism | News reported and distributed by citizens rather than professional journalist | 4 | |
2163062436 | Political ideology | consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and role of govt. | 5 | |
2163067841 | Democracy | -A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the gov. process -Election of key public officials | 6 | |
2163080410 | Public Opinion | Citizens attitudes about political issues, leaders, institutions and events. | 7 | |
2163088038 | Realignments | Occurs when issues emerge that parties center around -ex: democratic s change to republicans because they feel strong about the issue involved | 8 | |
2163165829 | American Two party System | Winner takes all single member districts -losing party gets no representative from specific district | 9 | |
2163181759 | Equality of Opportunity | A Widely shared american ideal that all people should have the freedom to use what ever talents and wealth they have to reach fullest potential. | 10 | |
2163216651 | Attitude or (opinion) | A specific preference on a particular issue | 11 | |
2163229201 | Framing | The power of the media to influence how events and issues are interpreted | 12 | |
2163231422 | Leak | A disclosure of confidential info to news or media | 13 | |
2163233868 | Libery | Freedom From Gov. control | 14 | |
2163239405 | Geographic Vs. Proportional Representation | Congress in single member districts U.S senate allocate by state (winners takes all) | 15 | |
2163292850 | Gender Gap | a distinctive patter of voting behavior reflecting the diff view between men and women | 16 | |
2163301524 | Right of Rebuttal | A federal communications commission regulation giving individuals right to respond to personal attacks on radio or TV. | 17 | |
2163349397 | Agents Of socialization | Social institutions, including families and schools, that help to shape individuals basic political beliefs and values. | 18 | |
2163356448 | What is GOP? | another word for republicans | 19 | |
2163373175 | Values | Basic principles that shape a persons opinions about political issues and events. | 20 | |
2163377462 | Niche Journalism | News reporting devoted to a targeted portion of a journalism market sector or for portion of readers. | 21 | |
2163382565 | Penny Press | Inexpensive newspapers first became possible due to steam power printing press | 22 | |
2163386413 | Political Socialiazation | The induction of individuals into the political culture learning the underlying values on which political systems is based on | 23 | |
2163388225 | New Aggreagator | an application or feed that collects web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcast,online videos and more. | 24 | |
2163480684 | Liberal | today this term refers to those who generally support social and political reform -extensive gov intervention in economy | 25 | |
2163492571 | Marketplace of ideas | the public forum in which beliefs and ideas are exchanged and compete | 26 | |
2163503255 | Political Ideology | A cohesive set of beliefs that forms a general philosophy about the role of the government. | 27 | |
2163511292 | Priming | Process of preparing the public to take a particular view of events or political actor. | 28 | |
2163517366 | Selection Bias (news) | The tendency to focus news coverage on only on aspect of an event or issue,avoiding coverage of over aspects. | 29 | |
2163531349 | Protest | Participation that involves assembling crowds to confront a government or other official organization. | 30 | |
2163545246 | Online political Participation | activities designed to influence gov. using the internet | 31 | |
2163551747 | Suffrage | The right to vote also called franchise | 32 | |
2163557965 | Turn out | Percentage of eligible individuals who actually vote | 33 | |
2163560234 | Socioeconomic Status | Status in Society based on level of education,income and occupational prestige. | 34 | |
2163570470 | Mobilization | The process by which large #'s of people are organized for a political activity. | 35 | |
2163576302 | Permanent Absentee Ballots | the option in some states to have a ballot sent automatically to your home for each election instead of requesting a absenting ballot each times | 36 | |
2163588051 | Political parties | Organized groups that attempt to influence the gov. by electing their members to important gov offices. | 37 | |
2163589154 | Electoral Realignment | The point in history when a new party supplants the ruling party becoming in turn the dominant political force. | 38 | |
2163630981 | Caucus (Political) | A normally closed meeting of a political party or legislative group to select candidate, plan strategy | 39 | |
2163634000 | plurality system | Candidate only needs to receive the most votes in election not majority of votes cast | 40 | |
2163645577 | Coattail Effect | the result of voters casting their ballot for president or gov and "automatically" voting for remainder of the party tickets | 41 | |
2163654322 | Soft money | Money contributes directly to political parties and other organizations for political activity's that are not regulated by federal campaign laws. | 42 | |
2163655449 | Machines | Strong Party organization in late 19 century and early 20th century | 43 | |
2163656095 | Patronage | Special favors to supporters | 44 | |
2163656815 | Party identifiation | and individual voters psychological ties to one party or another. | 45 | |
2163658314 | Gender gap | Diff. views between women and men | 46 | |
2163671168 | nomination | The process by which political parties select their candidates for election to public office | 47 | |
2163672755 | Run off election | A "second round" election in which voters choose between the top two candidates from 1st round. | 48 | |
2163673462 | Majority System | a type of electoral system in which to win a seat in parliament or other representative body Majority of all votes cast in relevant district | 49 | |
2163700430 | Horse Race | , who is ahead, who is behind, who is gaining ground | 50 | |
2163705236 | party Platform | political party's statement of its goals and policies for the next four years. The platform is drafted prior to the party convention by a committee whose members are chosen in rough proportion to each candidate's strength. It is the best formal statement of a party's beliefs. | 51 | |
2163716489 | Third parties | a political party organized as an alternative to the major parties in a two-party system | 52 | |
2163728810 | Federal Election Committee (FEC) | six-member bipartisan agency created by the FECA of 1974. The FEC administers and enforces campaign finance laws. | 53 |
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