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Presidential Election Campaign Fund - Correct Answer -Money from the $3 federal
income tax check-off goes into this fund, which is then distributed to qualified
candidates to subsidize their presidential campaigns.
Presidential primaries - Correct Answer -a state-level election to determine which
candidate the state's delegates will support.
Regional primaries - Correct Answer -a proposal by critics of the caucuses and
presidential primaries to replace these electoral methods with a series of
primaries held in each geographic region.
Selective perception - Correct Answer -the act of paying the most attention to
things that one already agrees with or has a predisposition towards.
Soft money - Correct Answer -money raised by political parties for voter
registration drives and the distribution of campaign material at the grass roots
level, now banned at the national level.
,Superdelegates - Correct Answer -delegates to the Democratic Party's national
convention who obtain their seats on the basis of their positions within the party
structure.
527 groups - Correct Answer -independent groups that seek to influence the
political process but are not subject to contribution restrictions because they do
not directly advocate the election of a particular candidate.
Actual group - Correct Answer -a group composed of those in the potential group
who are members of the interest group.
Amicus curiae briefs - Correct Answer -friend of the court briefs filed by interest
groups to inform the court of their position and to state how their welfare would
be affected by a ruling.
Class action lawsuits - Correct Answer -a technique used by interest groups which
allows groups of people with similar complaints to combine their grievances into a
single suit.
Collective good - Correct Answer -something of value which cannot be withheld
from individuals in the potential group.
, Electioneering - Correct Answer -helping sympathetic candidates get into office.
Elite theory - Correct Answer -argues that because only a few groups have enough
power to influence policy, power is concentrated into a few interlocking power
centers.
Free-rider problem - Correct Answer -a situation where individuals let others work
to secure a collective good and then enjoy the benefit without contributing
anything to the group effort.
Hyperpluralist theory - Correct Answer -argues that too many groups are getting
what they want at the expense of the unrepresented and that this behavior leads
to incoherent public policy.
Interest groups - Correct Answer -organizations where people with similar policy
goals enter the political process to achieve those goals.