AP Government
Political Behavior, Elections, and Voting
1. Emily’s list
2. conservative
3. liberal
4. Republican
5. Democrat
6. classical liberalism
7. political culture
8. popular sovereignty
9. political socialization
10. Christian Coalition
11. Green party values
12. Libertarian Party
13. socialism
14. reinforcing cleavages
15. cross-cutting cleavages
16. voting patterns of various groups (ethnic, age, gender, blacks, socioeconomic,
religious)
17. Defense of Marriage Act (1996)
18. political efficacy
19. shared values
20. American dream
21. sunbelt
22. gender gaps
23. political behavior and attitudes of various religion, ethnicity, and gender
24. public opinion
25. Gallup polls
26. exit polls
27. random sampling
28. political ideology
29. sampling error
30. political participation
31. Mass media
32. horse race
33. scientific poll
34. Voting background and patterns
35. public opinion
36. midterm elections
37. primary election
38. general election
39. caucus
40. national convention
41. sampling error
42. universe
43. random sampling
44. party identification
45. Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
46. Advantages of incumbency
47. Electoral College
48. Political Socialization
49. FEC
50. FCC
51. Federal Elections Campaign Act
52. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
53. Term limits for U.S. Constitution (how can it be applied if it ever did)
54. coattail effect
55. prospective issue voting
56. retrospective issue voting
57. Australian ballot (secret ballot)
58. exit poll
59. gender gap
60. political ideology
61. yellow journalism
62. shield laws
63. leak
64. closed primary
65. open primary
66. blanket primary
67. National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter Act)
68. winner take all system
69. proportional representation
70. referendum
71. initiative
72. hard money
73. soft money
74. Political Action Committee
75. front loading ( bunching of primaries early in an election year)
76. early reporting of election outcome
77. the influence of TV in elections
78. How do independent candidates get on the ballot?
79. how do campaign consultants help campaigns
80. proportion of senators up for re-election