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- author "me"
- tags "Political party test"
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- Equal time rule
- Requires broadcast stations To sell air time equally to all candidates in a political campaign if they sell at all
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Fairness doctrine
Requires broadcast stations to cover events adequately and to present contrasting views on important public issues
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Muckraking
Form of journalism conceded with reforming govt and business conduct
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Disturbance theory
Theory that inteserest groups form in part to contradict the efforts of other groups
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3 purposes for political parties
- Mobilizing support and gathering power,
- force of stability and moderation,
- unity linkage and accountabiliy
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What were the first parties
Federalists and anti federalists
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2 reasons for 2 party system
- Tradition,
- obstacles for 3 party sysyem
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Why do third parties exist
- Promotion of certain ideology,
- frustration with major partie
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Geographic regions for each party
- West- democrats,
- south-Republican
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People with democrats
- Widowed,
- young, women
- , catholics and jews
- , liberals
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People with republicans
- Old,
- married,
- protestants,
- conservatives,
- men
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National convention
Party meeting held in presidential election year to nominate the president and vp
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Ticket splitting
Not voting only one party
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Patronage
Gifts or special favorsgiven as rewards to friends and political allies for support
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Coattail effect
Tendency of lesser known candidates on ballot to profit in an election by presence on the parties ticket of a popular candidate
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Interest group
Organization of people that tries to influence public policy
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Pac
- Political action committee.
- Organization that campaigns for or against political candidates or legislation
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527 group
Type of us tax exempt organization created to influence the selection, nomination, and election of candidates in office
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Lobbiyst
Interest group rep who seeks to influence legislation that will benefit their organization through political persuasion
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Lobbying
- Activities of a group or organization that seeks to influence legislation and
- persuade political leaders to support their group position
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Collective good
- Something of value that can't be withheld from a nonmember of a group,
- like a tax write off or a better environment
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Free rider problem
Potential members fail to join a group because they can get benefits without contributing to the effort
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Arguments on favor of regulation of special interest groups
- Not given a role in the constitution to make influence or policy,
- allows govt to level the playing field
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Arguments against regulating interest groups
- May strife political speech
- , interest groups are not necessary
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Lobbying in congress
- In 2004 nearly $4 million was spent on lobbying for every member of congress,
- medical interests not only were among the top spenders for lobbying activities but also were the source of significant campaign contribtuons to D's and R's
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Lobbying in the executive branch
- In 1992, reps from the auto industry accompanied president Bush to lobby the japanese for more favorable trade regulations,
- national womens law centre was important in seeing title 9 be enforces fully
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Lobbying in the judicial branch
- In 1991,122 groups testified or filed prepared statements for/against the nomination of clarence Thomas for the supreme court
- upon hearing the news of William rehnquists illness in 2004 many interest groups got ready to lobby
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advertising bias
When stories are selected or slanted to please advertisers
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Corporate bias
When stories are elected or slanted to please corporate owners of media
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Mainstream bias
Tendency to report what everyone else is reporting, and to avoid stories that will offend
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Examples of corporate bias
In 2003, a study released by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting stated the network news disproportionately focused on pro-war sources and left out anti-wat sources
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Examples of mainstream bias
In the 1960's the liberal media stations refused to report anything about the Soviet Union to prevent offending followers
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List of third parties
- Green party,
- libertarian party,
- and the reform party
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Nomination process
- Parties in states select delegates in primary elections.
- These delegates from the respective states attend the national party to nominate a presidential candidate for their party
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What's the grassroots movement
- Movement that starts with a small number of people but quickly catches on.
- Not endorsed by a party or corporation, but starts on its own by the people in a local level
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What is a super pac
Package that is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on corporations, unions, individuals, and associations
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How does media set agendas
- They choose what and when to report stories.
- puts out ideas, opinions and facts for a large group of people to hear about to form their own opinions on
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