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poly sci 9-10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Face-to-face | communication by personal contact |
| Stump | verb, to campaign by personally speaking to audiences |
| introspective | looking within oneself |
| opinion leaders | locally respected people who influence the views of others |
| oligopoly | a few big firms dominant a market |
| status quo | keeping the present situation |
| elite media | highly influential newspapers and magazines read by elites and the attentive public |
| wire service | news agency that sells to all media |
| source | who or where a news reporter gets information from |
| Blog | short for web log online free magazine often partisan and idiosyncratic |
| media event | news incident planned to get media coverage |
| incumbent | official who already occupies the office |
| bandwagon | tendency of front runners to gain additional supporters |
| cross-pressured | pulled between opposing political forces said to produce apathy |
| nonpaternalism | not taking a supervisory or guiding role |
| electromagnetic spectrum | the airwaves over which signals are broadcast |
| framing | a news story's basic direction and interpretation |
| adversarial | inclined to criticize and oppose to treat with enmity |
| sullivan | short for new york times v. sullivan 1964 supreme court decision protecting media against public officials libel suits |
| corporatism | the direct participation of interest groups in government |
| METI | japans ministry of economy, trade, and industry formerly MITI, ministry of international trade and industry |
| Diet | Japans national legislature |
| corruption | use of public office for private gain |
| subprime | risky mortgage made to unqualified borrower |
| scandal | corruption made public |
| public financing | using tax dollars to fund something such as election campaign expenses |
| unforeseen consequence | bad or counterproductive result when laws or policies do not work as expected |
| political action committee | us interest group set up specifically to contribute money to election campaigns |
| soft money | campaign contributions to parties and issue groups so as to skirt federal limits on contributions to candidates |
| single-issue groups | interest association devoted to one cause only |
| AFL-CIO | american federation of labor-congress of industrial organizations, the largest us union federation |
| NAM | national association of manufactures a major federation of us industrial executives |
| socioeconomic status | combination of income and prestige criteria in the ranking of groups |
| structured access | long term friendly connection of interest group to officials |
| lobbying | interest group contact with legislatures |
| class action | lawsuit on behalf of a group |
| amicus curiae | statement to a court by persons not party to a case |
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