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Common Cause, founded in 1970, is a ___________________________ group that has tried to reform various aspects of the American political system.
public interest group
The largest and most powerful labor organization today is the ________________.
AFL-CO
In conducting polls, the group of people that are to be studied is called the
universe
An _________________ is a set of basic beliefs about life, culture, government, and society.
ideology
A sampling error is a measurement of how much the sample results may differ from the sample universe. Sampling error _________ as the sample size becomes _________.
decreases, larger
The Supreme Court has also affected the growth and operation of PACs. For example, in the case of Buckley v. Valeo 1 (1976) the Court ruled that different divisions of a corporation or different union locals can set up _______________________.
only one PAC per election year.
The __________________________ issues regulations and advisory opinions that control PAC activities.
Board of Elections
Many well-organized interest groups have research staffs that help members of Congress draft proposed laws. Studies have shown that interest groups and their lobbyists draft parts of or entire bills for almost ______ percent of all legislation.
50 percent
"The office of America is to liberate, to abolish kingcraft, priestcraft, castle, monopoly, to pull down the gallows, to burn up the bloody statute-book, to take in the immigrant, to open the doors of the sea and the fields of the earth."
Who said this?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Bar Association (ABA) and the American Medical Association (AMA) are two examples of interest groups that are _________________________.
professional associations
Every nation in the world has a ___________________, a set of basic values and beliefs about a nation and its government that most citizens share. For example, a belief in liberty and freedom is one of the key elements of American political culture
political culture
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