Term used to describe the support that an party gets from its supporters in opposition to the parties political opponents.
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de-alignment
process whereby individuals become less partisan in terms of their support for a particular political party
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Gender gap
the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes
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New Deal Coalition
Group of voting blocs and interest groups, that supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, and voted for Democrat presidential candidates from 1932 through until the 1960s.
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Democratic overload
theory that states there is simply too much democracy in the United States, the voting population is essentially overloaded and cannot switch off from the politics of the day. There is in a sense almost too much democracy, coming from the number of o
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Differential abstention
term used to describe the difference in turnout between social groups
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ticket splitting
process by which voters will choose different parties for different offices in elections. To put more simply, in an election whereby several offices are all being contested on a single ballot, to split a ticket, voters will vote one party for one off
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swing voters
is a voter who does not have a strong party affiliation, and someone who will change their vote in each election.
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pluralism
theory of the distribution of political power that holds that power is widely and evenly dispersed in society, rather than concentrated in the hands of an elite or ruling class.
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elitism
belief that a small minority of people dominate the economic elite and policy-planning network of a country. The power they hold is not regulated and is independent of the state’s democratic election process.
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lobbying
attempt by business, charities, political action committees, individuals and pressure groups to influence politicians in the legislative, or justices in the judicial, to create certain pieces of legislation, loosen regulation, or to rule a certain wa
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access points
the places to which pressure groups go to exert influence.
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direct action
a group tries to implement a policy or prevent the implementation of a policy itself, rather than persuading others.
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iron triangles
Term used to describe a relationship that develops between congressional committees, the federal bureaucracy and interest groups during the policy creation process.
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clientelism
relationship between individuals with unequal economic and social status (“the boss” and his “clients”) that entails the reciprocal exchange of goods and services based on a personal link that is generally perceived in terms of moral obligation.
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process whereby individuals become less partisan in terms of their support for a particular political party
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de-alignment
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the differences between women and men, especially as reflected in social, political, intellectual, cultural, or economic attainments or attitudes
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Card 4
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Group of voting blocs and interest groups, that supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, and voted for Democrat presidential candidates from 1932 through until the 1960s.
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Card 5
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theory that states there is simply too much democracy in the United States, the voting population is essentially overloaded and cannot switch off from the politics of the day. There is in a sense almost too much democracy, coming from the number of o
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