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Lauren YWPA pg. 237
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An extremely powerful interest group, with membership of more than thirty-five million senior citizens. It represents close to one-fifth of the nation's older population | AARP |
| The body of law that deals with the legality of rules and procedures set forth by governmental bureaucracies | administrative law |
| Government and private policies that strive to hire minorities in order to make up for previous patterns of discrimination | affirmative action |
| An unresolved societal problem now recognized as important by public officials and/or private individuals; thus, requiring support to obtain an eventual policy soulution | agenda issue |
| The faction opposed to the ratification of the constitution | anti-federalists |
| A court that is hearing a case on appeal from a lower court has appellate jurisdiction | appellate jurisdiction |
| A totalitarian political system in which the government and its leaders are in complete control of every aspect of society | authoritarianism |
| An amount of money that serves as a suarantee that an individual will appear in court for his or her trial at a specified time | bail |
| The principle that usually guides a presidential nominee's selection of a vice-presidential running mate, whereby the vice-presidential nominee has contrasting personal and political traits that maximize the ticket's appeal to many voters | balancing the ticket |
| Critics charge that publishing poll results will influence voters to vote for the candidate who appears to be far ahead of his opponent | bandwagon effect |
| Refers to a legislature composed of two houses or chambers | bicameral |
| The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution | Bill of Rights |
| An act that bans soft money contributions to the national parties, but allows a sum of $10,000 per year per individual to be given to state and local parties | Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act |
| Federal grants-in-aid that are directed at broad policy areas, such as crime or community development. Generally, states and localities have greater discretion in determining how these funds may be allocated with catergorical grants | block grants |
| On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court held that educational segregation based on race was unconstitutional, a violation of the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment | Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka |
| A large, complex administative organization based on a hierarchial structure, with written rules and regulations; its purpose is to implement policy | bureaucracy |
| The 2000 case that stopped the manual recounting of ballots in Florida and gave the presidency to George W. Bush over Al Gore | Bush vs. Gore |
| Collectively, the fifteen excecutive departments that administer the policies of the federal government | cabinet departments |
| Federal grants-in-aid that are directed at a specific state or local governmental project | categorical grants |
| A sample that does not faithfully represent the population; hence, the poll results will be inaccurate | biased sample |
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