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US GOVT #2 Paz Pena
chapter 3-5 review test # 2
| Key Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Federalism | Two or more governments exercise power and authority over the same people and the same territory |
| States rights | The idea that all rights not specifically conferred on the national government by the Constitution are reserved to the states |
| Cooperative federalism | A view that holds that the Constitution is an agreement among people who are citizens of both state and nation, so there is little distinction between state powers and national powers |
| Commerce clause | The third clause of Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to regulate commerce among the states. |
| Categorical grants | A grant-in-aid targeted for a specific purpose by formula or by project |
| Project grants | A categorical grant awarded on the basis of competitve applications submitted by prospective recipients |
| Preemption | The power of Congress to enact laws by which the national government assumes total or partial reponsibility for a state government function |
| Restraint | A requirement laid down by act of Congress prohibiting a state or local government from exercising a certain power |
| Municipal government | The government unit that administers a city or town |
| School district | An area for which a local government unit administers elementary and secondary school programs |
| Dual federalism | A view that holds the Constitution is a compact amaong sovereign states, so that the powers of the national government are fixed and limited |
| Implied power | Those powers that Congress requires in order to execute its enumerated powers |
| Elastic clause | The last clause in Seciton 8 of Article I of the Constitution, which gives Congress enumerated power. This clause is the basis for Congress's implied powers. Also called the nessary and proper clause. |
| Grant-in-aid | Money provided by one level of government to another, to be spent for a given purpose. |
| Formula grant | A categorical grant distributed according to a particular formula that specifices who is eligible for the grant and how much each eligible applicant will receive |
| Block grant | A grant-in-aid awarded for general purposes, allowing the recipient great discretion in spending the grant money |
| Mandates | A reuirement that a state undertake an activity or provide a service in keeping with minimum national standards |
| Coercive federalism | A view that the national government may impose its policy preferences on the statres through regulations in the form of mandates and restraints |
| County government | The goverment unit that administers a county |
| Special district | A government unit created to perform particular functions, especially when those functions are best performed across jurisictional boundaries |
| Coercive federalism | A view that the national government may impose its policy preferences on the statres through regulations in the form of mandates and restraints |
| County government | The goverment unit that administers a county |
| Special district | A government unit created to perform particular functions, especially when those functions are best performed across jurisictional boundaries |
| public opinion | The collected attitudes of citizens concerning a given issue or question |
| Socioeconomic status | Position in society, based on a combination of education, occupational status, and income |
| Mass media | The means employed in mass communication, often divided into print media and broadcast media |
| Federal communications commission (FCC) | An independent federal agency that regulates interstate and international communication by radio, television telephone, telegraph, cable, and satellite |
| Reasonable access rule | An FCC rule that requires broadcast stations to make their facilities available for the expression of conflicting views or issues by all responsible elements in the community |
| Horse race journalism | Election coverage by the mass media that focuses on which candidate is ahead rather than on national issues |
| Political agenda | A list of issues that need government attention |
| Political socialization | The complex process by which people acquire their political values |
| Self-interest principle | The implication that people choose what benefits them personally |
| Newsworthiness | The degree to which a news story is important enough to be convered in the mass media |
| Equal opportunities rule | Federal Communications Act of 1934 - the requirement that if a broadcast station gives or sells time to a candidate for any public office, it must make available an equal amount of time under the same conditions to all other candidates for that office |
| Gatekeepers | Media exectives, news editors, and prominent reporters who decide which events to report and which elements in theose stories to emphasize |
| Television hypotheis | The belief that television is to blame for the low level of citizens' knowledge about public affairs |
| Watchdog jouralism | Journalism that scrutinizes public and business institutions and pubicizes perceived misconduct |
| Political participation | Actions of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support government and politics |
| Unconventional participation | Relatively uncommon political behavior that challenges or defies established institutions and dominant norms |
| Direct Action | Unconventional participation that involves assembling crowds to confront businesses and local governments to demand a hearing |
| Influencing behavior | Behavior that seeks to modify or reverse government policy to serve political interests |
| Suffrage | The right to vote. Also called the franchise |
| Progessivism | A philosophy of political reform based on the goodness and wisom of the individual citzen as opposed to special interests and political intitutions |
| Recall | The process for removing an elected official from office |
| Initiative | A procedure by which voters can propose an issue to be decided by the legislature or by the people in a referendum. It requires gathering a specified # of signatures and submitting a petition to a designated agency |
| Conventional participation | Relatively routine political behavior that uses institutional channels and is acceptable to the dominant culture |
| Terrorism | Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents |
| Supportive behavior | Actions that exptr |
| Class-action suit | A legal action brought by a person or group on behalf of a number of people in similar circumstances |
| Franchise | The right to vote. Also called suffrage |
| Direct primary | A preliminary election, run by the state government, in which the voters choose each party's candidates for the general election |
| Referendum | An election on a policy issue |
| Standard socioceconomic model | A relationship between socioeconomic status and conventional political involvement: People with higher status and more education are more likely to participate than th |
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