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Round 2

Final Jeopardy

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Another word for “friend of the court” filed by an interest

group to influence a Supreme Court decision.

$100$100


$100$100

What is an “Amicus Curiae”brief? What is an “Amicus Curiae”brief?

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The problem faced by interest groups when citizens can reap the benefits of interest group action without Actually joining, participating in, or contributing money to such groups.

$200$200


What is the “free rider” problem?

$200$200

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Elections in which candidates are not identified by party membership on the ballot.

$300$300


What are Nonpartisan elections?

$300$300

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FCC rule (no longer in effect) that required broadcasters to air a variety of viewpoints

on their programs.

$400$400


What is the Fairness Doctrine?

$400$400

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A ballot in which candidates are arranged by party rather than office. Encourages straight

ticket voting.

$500$500


$500$500

What is a Party Column Ballot? What is a Party Column Ballot?

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A ballot in which candidates are arranged by office rather than party. Encourages split ticket voting.

$100$100


What is an office column ballot?

$100$100

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Appointing loyal party members to government positions is called:

$200$200


$200$200

What is Patronage? What is Patronage?

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Placing a certain slant on a story to deflect negative public attention against a candidate

or office holder.

$300$300


What is Spin Control?

$300$300

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A staged campaign event that attracts favorable visual media coverage, e.g., a candidate reading to a group

of school children.

$400$400


$400$400

What is a Photo Opportunity? What is a Photo Opportunity?

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A short, pithy comment that is likely to attract media attention, e.g., Ronald Reagan saying, “A recession Is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression

Is when you lose your job, and recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his job.”

$500$500


What is a Sound Bite?

$500$500

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$100$100

A contention that parties are less meaningful to voters, who have abandoned the parties in greater numbers to become independents.

A contention that parties are less meaningful to voters, who have abandoned the parties in greater numbers to become independents.


What is a Dealignment argument?

$100$100

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Attempting to influence policy makers is called:

$200$200


What is Lobbying?

$200$200

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$300$300

An informal association of federal agency, congressional committee, and

interest group that is said to have heavy influence over policy making.

An informal association of federal agency, congressional committee, and

interest group that is said to have heavy influence over policy making.


What is an Iron Triangle?

$300$300

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$400$400

theory that upper class elites exercise great influence over public policy.theory that upper class elites exercise great influence over public policy.


$400$400

What is Elite Theory? What is Elite Theory?

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The practice of perceiving media messages the way one wants to.

$500$500


What is Selective Perception?

$500$500

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A theory that policy making is the result of interest group

competition.

$100$100


What is Pluralism?

$100$100

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Just as sharks engage in a feeding frenzy when they sense blood in the water, the media “attack” when they sense

wrongdoing or scandal in government, and devote great amounts of

coverage to such stories.

$200$200


$200$200

What is Feeding Frenzy? What is Feeding Frenzy?

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The tendency of the media to report on an election campaign as if it were a horse race, i.e.,

who is ahead, who is behind, who is gaining ground.

$300$300


$300$300

What is Horse Race Coverage? What is Horse Race Coverage?

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$400$400

The cycle in which a person alternately works for the public sector and private sector, thus blurring the individual’s

sense of loyalty

The cycle in which a person alternately works for the public sector and private sector, thus blurring the individual’s

sense of loyalty


What is the Revolving Door?

$400$400

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An abandoned rule of the Democratic Party national convention in which the candidate with the most delegates from a state won all

of that state’s convention votes.

$500$500


What is Unit Rule?

$500$500

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$100$100

the practice of selectively choosing media sources which are in harmony with one’s

own beliefs.

the practice of selectively choosing media sources which are in harmony with one’s

own beliefs.


What is Selective Exposure?

$100$100

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A government in which one party controls the presidency while another

party controls the Congress.

$200$200


What is Divided Government?

$200$200

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The act or process of carrying out a lawsuit.

$300$300


What is Litigation?

$300$300

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$400$400

A term used by Madison to denote what we now call interest groups

A term used by Madison to denote what we now call interest groups


$400$400

What are Factions? What are Factions?

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ScoresFinal

Jeopardy Question

Show Me the Money, Honey


An interest group that raises funds and donates to election campaigns.

$500$500


What is Political Action Committee (not TUPAC)?

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