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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| political parties | a group of persons who seek to comtrol the goverment through the winning of election and holding public office |
| partisanship | strong support of there party and public stands |
| minor party | one of the many political parties without wide voter support in this country |
| bipartisan | supported by two parties |
| consensus | a general agreement among various groups |
| incumbent | current officeholder |
| faction | conflicting groups |
| electorate | the people eligible to vote |
| sectionalism | a narrowinded concern for the interest of one section of a country |
| splinter parties | those who have split away from major parties |
| split ticket voting | voting for cantidates of of different parties for different offices in the same election |
| sufferage1 | the right to vote |
| gerrymandering | practice of drawing electoral district lines in order to limit voting strength of a particular party |
| political socializing | the process where people gain their political attitudes and opinions |
| independent | people who have no party affiliation |
| direct primary | an intra- party election |
| closed primary | only declared party members can vote |
| ballot | a device that a voter registers a choice in an election |
| political action committee | various non-party groups |
| soft money | funds given to party orginization for cantidate recruitment etc. |
| hard money | hard moneymoney that is raised and spent to elect cantidates |
| public affairs | policies, public issues and making of public policies |
| mass media | means of communications that reach large amounts of people |
| public opinion poll | devices that attempt to collect information by asking people questions |
| sample | a representative slice of the total universe |
| quota sample | a sample deliberately constructed to reflect several of the major characteristics of a given universe |
| public policy | all of the many goals that a goverment pursues in all the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved |
| labor union | an orginiztion of workers who share the same type of job,or who work in the same industry, and press for goverment policies that will benefit their members |
| propaganda | a technique of persuasion aimed at influencing individual or group behaviors to crate particular beliefs, regardless of it validity |
| lobbying | activities at which group pressures are brought to bear on legislatures and legilative process |
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