Government Chapter 7 Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 interest group | Any group that seeks to influence public policy. |
| institutional interests | Individuals or groups representing other organizations. |
| solidary incentives | The sense of pleasure, status, or companionship arising from group membership. |
| material incentives | Money, things, or services obtainable from interest group membership. |
| public-interest lobby | An organization whose goals, if realized, would benefit primarily nongroup members. |
| Democratic-Republicans | Political party founded by Thomas Jefferson. |
| progressives | Group of reformers who were able to reduce the worst forms of political corruption within political parties. |
| political efficacy | A citizen's sense that he or she can understand and influence politics. |
| Hatch Act of 1939 | Reform oriented legislation which took federal employees out of machine politics. |
| political machine | A political party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over members' activities. |
| personal following | A political party organization built around allegiance to a particular candidate. |
| plurality | Simply refers to getting more votes in an election than the other candidates—but not necessarily a majority. |
| political party | A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label. |
| national party convention | The ultimate authority in both major political parties in the United States. |
| single-member districts | Members of the House of Representations are elected from these. |
| ideological parties | Parties that value principle above all else. |
| soft money | Campaign money which is not regulated by the government. |
| Federalists | Political party founded by Alexander Hamilton. |
| caucus | A closed meeting of party leaders to select party candidates. |
| federal money | Campaign money which is subject to regulation by the government. |
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