GoPo Review Vocab - P
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| Elections held in individual states to determine the preference of the voters and to allocate the number of delegates to the party's national convention | Presidential primary
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| The factors that determine voting behavior such as family, religion, and ethnic background | Political socialization
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| These raise money from the special interest constituents and make contributions to political campaigns on behalf of the special interest group | PACs
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| A theory that competition among all affected interests shapes public policy | Pluralist
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| The political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity and networks | Personal following
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| The final actions taken by government in promotional, regulatory, or distributive form | Public policy
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| A shift away from the major political parties to a more neutral, independent ideological view of party identification | Party dealignment
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| An electoral system, used in almost all American election, in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes, even if he or she does not receive a majority of the votes | Plurality
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| Rejection of legislation that occurs if the president does not sign a bill within 10 days and the Congress also adjourns within the same time period | Pocket veto
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| Term meaning "fringe benefits of Office." For example, high-ranking officials are limousines, expense accounts, free air travel, fancy offices, and staff assistants | Perks (short from perquisites)
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| A group of people joined together by common philosophies and common approaches with the aim of getting candidates elected in order to develop and implement public policy | Political party
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| A citizen's belief that he or she can understand and influence political affairs | Political efficacy
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| Made illegal by the 24th Amendment; instituted by mainly southern states as a condition to vote and had the effect of preventing African-Americans from voting | Poll tax
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| A legal concept by which earlier court decisions serve as models in justifying decisions in subsequent cases | Precedent (also stare decisis)
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| A more or less consistent set of views as to the policies government ought to pursue | Political ideology
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| A vote in which a majority of Democratic legislators, for example, oppose a majority of Republican legislators | Party polarization
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| Any of the principles contained in a political party's platform | Plank
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| A tax based upon the amount of money an individual earned such as an income tax. Became legal as a result of the ratification of the 16th Amendment | Progressive tax
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| The person who presides over the Senate when the Vice President is not there, most senior member of the majority party in the Senate | President pro tempore
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| A brief, unsigned opinion issued by the Supreme Court to explain its ruling | Per curiam opinion
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| The movement of voters from one political party to another resulting in a major shift in the political spectrum | Party realignment
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| The party organization that exists on the local level and uses patronage as the means to keep the party members in line. Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall are examples | Party machine
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| The practice of legislators obtaining funds through legislation that favors their home districts | Pork
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| A series of steps that are established by the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments that protect the rights of the accused at every step of the investigation | Procedural due process
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| Voted on by the delegates attending the National Convention, they represent the ideological point of view of a political party | Party platforms
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