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poly sci 11-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| political party | group seeking to elect office-holders under a given label |
| interest aggregation | melding separate interests into general platforms put forward by a political party |
| mobilization | rousing people to participate in politics |
| centralization | degree of control exercised by national headquarters |
| coherence | sticking together to make a rational whole |
| neo-institutional theory | institutions take on lives of their own, sometimes disconnected from electorates |
| great society | president johnsons ambitious program of social reforms |
| political appointment | government job given to non-civil servant, often as reward for support |
| transparency | political money and transactions open to public scrutiny |
| nationalization | putting major industries under govt ownership |
| mass party | one that attempts to gain committed adherents usually has formal memberhsip |
| cadre party | one run by a few political professionals and only intermittently active |
| devotee party | one based on single personality |
| personalistic | based on personality of strong ruler |
| politburo | Russian for political bureau the ruling committee a communist party |
| opportunists | persons out for themselves |
| apparatchik | Russian for person of the apparatus full time communist party functionary |
| weltanschauung | german for worldview parties that attempt to sell a particular ideology |
| catchall | large ideologically loose parties that welcome all |
| party system | how parties interact with eachother |
| electoral system | laws for running elections two general types single member district and proportional |
| electoral system | laws for running elections two general types single member district and proportional |
| inchoate | not yet formed |
| instability | frequent changes of cabinet |
| immobilism | getting stuck over a major political issue |
| two-pulse party system | country having two big and one or more small parties |
| polarized pluralism | system in which parties become more extremist |
| center-seeking | parties become moderate aiming for large blocks of votes in center of political spectrum |
| center-fleeing | parties become extremist, ignoring voters in center |
| postmaterialism | theory that modern culture has moved beyond getting and spending |
| franchise | the right to vote |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| multicausal | several factors making something happen |
| if-then statement | says that two variables are linked: where x happens so does Y |
| tendency | finding that two variables are linked but not perfectly |
| party identification | long-term voter voter attachment to a given party |
| swing | percentage of voters switching from one election to the next |
| class voting | tendency of a given social class to vote for a party that promotes its economic interests |
| voting bloc | group with a marked tendency |
| electoral college | us system of weighting popular presidential vote to favor smaller states |
| anachronism | something out of the past |
| critical election | one showing a realignment |
| realignment | major long term shift in party id |
| polarization | opinion fleeing the center to form two hostile camps |
| religiosity | depth of religious conviction(not same as choice of denomination) |
| dealignment | major long term decline in party ID |
| charismatic | having strong personal drawing power |
| retrospective voting | voters choosing based on overall incumbent performance |
| constituency | the people or district that elects an official |
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