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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Round 1Round 2 Final Jeopardy

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Terms 1 Terms 2 Terms 3 Terms 4 Yo Mama 5 Wuzup? 6 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Round 2 Final Jeopardy Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Another word for “friend of the court” filed by an interest group to influence a Supreme Court decision. $100

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is an “Amicus Curiae”brief? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved 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

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is the “free rider” problem? $200 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Elections in which candidates are not identified by party membership on the ballot. $300

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What are Nonpartisan elections? $300 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved FCC rule (no longer in effect) that required broadcasters to air a variety of viewpoints on their programs. $400

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is the Fairness Doctrine? $400 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A ballot in which candidates are arranged by party rather than office. Encourages straight ticket voting. $500

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is a Party Column Ballot? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A ballot in which candidates are arranged by office rather than party. Encourages split ticket voting. $100

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is an office column ballot? $100 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Appointing loyal party members to government positions is called: $200

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Patronage? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Placing a certain slant on a story to deflect negative public attention against a candidate or office holder. $300

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Spin Control? $300 Scores

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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

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is a Photo Opportunity? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved 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

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is a Sound Bite? $500 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 A contention that parties are less meaningful to voters, who have abandoned the parties in greater numbers to become independents.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is a Dealignment argument? $100 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Attempting to influence policy makers is called: $200

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Lobbying? $200 Scores

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$300 An informal association of federal agency, congressional committee, and interest group that is said to have heavy influence over policy making.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 theory that upper class elites exercise great influence over public policy.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Elite Theory? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved The practice of perceiving media messages the way one wants to. $500

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Selective Perception? $500 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A theory that policy making is the result of interest group competition. $100

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Pluralism? $100 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved 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

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Feeding Frenzy? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved 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

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is Horse Race Coverage? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The cycle in which a person alternately works for the public sector and private sector, thus blurring the individual’s sense of loyalty

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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

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Unit Rule? $500 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 the practice of selectively choosing media sources which are in harmony with one’s own beliefs.

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Selective Exposure? $100 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved A government in which one party controls the presidency while another party controls the Congress. $200

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The act or process of carrying out a lawsuit. $300

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Litigation? $300 Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 A term used by Madison to denote what we now call interest groups

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are Factions? Scores

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Scores Final Jeopardy Question Show Me the Money, Honey

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved An interest group that raises funds and donates to election campaigns. $500

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is Political Action Committee (not TUPAC)? Scores