STUDY GUIDE FOR UNIT 2 (VOTING, ELECTIONS, CAMPAIGNS, POLITICAL PARTIES, INTEREST GROUPS)
1. Study Power Point #6 fill in on Voting Laws and Behavior
2. 15th, 19th, 26th Amendments and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (why was it necessary relative to the 15th
Amendment)
3. Ballot fatigue
4. Reasons for non-voting
5. Conventional vs. non-conventional participation
6. Straight vs. split ticket voting
7. Majority vs. plurality voting
8. Two major political parties
9. Election of 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court ruling What was the butterfly ballot?
10. Ross Perot’s effect in 1992
11. How a candidate can win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote.
12. Initiative and referendum
13. What is sophomore surge?
14. Coattail effect
15. 4 Keys to running an election – the 4 T’s
16. Difference between a caucus and a primary
17. Open vs. closed primary
18. Example of position issue, example of valence issue
19. FEC? What is it?
20. Money in elections….limits on individual contributions
21. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
22. Prospective vs. Retrospective voting
23. Clothespin vote
24. Define interest group
25. What factors lead to the growth of interest groups?
26. Incentives used by interest groups to attract members
27. Dirty Dozen
28. NARAL, EMILY’S list
29. Two achievements of the union movement
30. How interest groups raise money
31. Key target of lobbyist?
32. Cues, ratings, insider vs. outsider strategy, grassroots lobbying
33. Define revolving door