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AP GO PO Unit 3 Voca
Political Parties / Interest Groups / Media
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amicus curiae brief | "friend of the court" brief filed by an interest group to influence a Supreme Court decision. |
| Dealignment argument | contention that parties are less meaningful to voters, who have abandoned the parties in greater numbers to become independents. (Contention means argument, Jon. Sheesh.) |
| Divided government | government in which one party controls the presidency while another party controls the Congress. |
| Elite theory | theory that upper class elites exercise great influence over public policy. |
| Free rider problem | the problem faced by interest groups when citizens can reap the benefits of interest group action without actually joining, participation in, or contributing money to such groups. |
| Horse race coverage | the tendency of the media to report on an election campaign as if it were a horse race, i.e., who is ahead, who is behind, who is gaining ground. |
| Confession | I just spilled hot chocolate on your vocab terms list. |
| Iron triangle | an informal association of federal agency, congressional committee, and interest group that is said to have heavy influence over policy making. |
| Litigation | the act or process of carrying out a lawsuit. |
| Party column ballot | ballot in which candidates are arranged by party rather than office. Encourages straight ticket voting. |
| Pluralism | theory that policy making is the result of interest group competition. |
| Patronage | appointing loyal party members to government positions. |
| Revolving door | A door that revolves. |
| Revolving door | the cycle in which a person alternately works for the public sector and private sector, thus blurring the individual's sense of loyalty. |
| Selective perception | the practice of perceiving media messages the way one wants to. |
| Sound bite | a short, pithy (brief and meaningful) comment that is likely to attract media attention, e.g. Ronald Reagan saying, "A recession in when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his job." |
| Spin control | placing a certain slant on a story to deflect negative public attention against a candidate or office holder. |
| Pneumonoultramicroscopicsi- licovolcanoconiosis | 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.' |
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