Review for GoPo Midterm

How Americans acquire political attitudes, form values and opinions about the political system

• Political ideology

• Political Partisanship

• Political Socialization

• Civic Responsibility

Political approach to returning power to states

• Realignment

• Dealignment

• Devolution

• Federalism

Federal grants for specific purposes. Usually require that the state put up matching money

• Block Grants

• Categorical Grants

• Revenue Sharing

• Devolution

Organization of people sharing a common goal seeking to influence the making of public policy

• Political Parties

• Political ideology

• Super PAC

• Interest Group

The power of the courts to declare acts of the legislature and the executive unconstitutional

• Judicial Review

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• Judicial Supremacy

A legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, without trial in a court of law

• Ex post facto

• Bill of attainder

• Habeas corpus

• Amicus curaie

Election where the winner is the one who gets the most votes, even without receiving a majority

• Proportional

• Plurality

• Majority

• Third Party

A primary election in which each voter may vote for candidates from both parties

• Open

• Closed

• Blanket

• Proportional

Powers given to the national government alone

• Enumerated

• Concurrent

• Reserved

• Denied

The broad involvement of constituents in the direction and operation of political systems

• Representative Democracy

• Participatory Democracy

• Elitist Model of Democracy

• Pluralist Model of Democracy