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

6. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Vocabul ary Interest Groups Political Parties Influent ial Groups Public Opinion Political Spectru m $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Round 2 Final Jeopardy Scores

7. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This is an organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals.

8. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is an interest group? Scores

9. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This is a citizen’s self-proclaimed preference for one party or the other.

10. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is party identification? Scores

11. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This is the distribution of the population’s beliefs about politics and policy issues.

12. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is public opinion? Scores

13. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This is the emergence of a non- Caucasian majority, as compared with a White, generally Anglo-Saxon majority.

14. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is minority majority? Scores

15. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 According to Richard Dawson, “the process through which an individual acquires his [or her] knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his [or her] political worlds.” According to Richard Dawson, “the process through which an individual acquires his [or her] knowledge, feelings, and evaluations regarding his [or her] political worlds.”

16. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is political socialization? Scores

17. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This person wrote “Are we a ‘nation of joiners.’”

18. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Scores Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?

19. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The largest number of PACs are funded and organized by this group.

20. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are corporations? Scores

21. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Another word for “friend of the court” filed by an interest group to influence a Supreme Court decision.

22. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is an “amicus curiae” brief? Scores

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24. $400 This group of politicians receive the most funds from PACs.

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

26. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This is a theory that explains how larger groups will fall short of providing an optimal amount of a collective good.

27. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is Olson’s law of large groups? Scores

28. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This age group are usually influential in elections.

29. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Who are senior citizens? Scores

30. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This group are known as policy generalists.

31. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are political parties? Scores

32. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This theory sees wealth as the basis of power.

33. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is the elite theory? Scores

34. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This occurs every 10 years as a result of the census report.

35. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is reapportionment? Scores

36. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This is a type of political party organization that relies heavily on material inducements, such as patronage, to win votes and to govern.

37. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is a party machine? Scores

38. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This interest group advocates the protection of the Second Amendment.

39. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Who is the NRA? (National Rifle Association) Scores

40. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The AARP focuses on these two big budget issues.

41. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is health care and Social Security? Scores

42. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 These are groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics.

43. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What are single-issue groups? Scores

44. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This is one powerful way of communication with the hope to influence a governmental decision maker’s decision.

45. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is lobbying? Scores

46. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 These are the channels through which people’s concerns become political issues on the government’s policy agenda, which include elections, political parties, interest groups, and the media.

47. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What are linkage institutions? Scores

48. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 These are public opinion surveys used by major media pollsters to predict electoral winners with speed and precision.

49. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 What is an exit poll? Scores

50. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 These are all the activities used by citizens to influence the selection of political leaders or the policies they pursue.

51. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is political participation? Scores

52. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This is the level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed, the more confident one can be of the results.

53. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is sampling error? Scores

54. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This is a relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole.

55. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is sample? Scores

56. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This is composed of an interest group, governmental structure, and a federal agency (bureaucracy).

57. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 What is an iron triangle? Scores

58. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This group of people believe in reforms within the system and advocate for equality.

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

60. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This group of people have mixed conservative and liberal beliefs and are the biggest population in the U.S. electorate.

61. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is a moderate? Scores

62. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This group of people believe in social change to the point of seeking a revolutionary transformation of society.

63. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 What is a radical? Scores

64. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This group of people believe in no government and are against any type of authority.

65. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is anarchy? Scores

66. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 This group of people believe in retrogressive changes by advocating changes to the old social order.

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

68. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Scores Interest Groups Final Jeopary Question

69. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved This interest group represents the big movie studios and administer film ratings.

70. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Who is the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)? Scores