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What is the porpuse of an intrest group?
a group of people who find a problem and provide a sloution
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What is Free Rider?
Someone who wants good for people but wont contrubute to help.
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What is Winner-take-all system
One person wins and everyone else looses.
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What is Gatekeeping
Witholding information
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What is Rational-choice voting
Voting based on previous actions of the canidate.
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What is economic intrest groups?
Intrest groups that focus on money and where it should go to benifit others.
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What is Revolving door
When someone goes between legislators and regulators.
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What is Single-member district
Winner takes all
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What is scorekeeper
Wourking with federal spending.
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What is retrospective voting
voting based on recent past
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What is Public sector interest groups?
Groups that work to better the lives of less fortunate.
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What is politics
studying the selection of candidates for public office.
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What is Safe seat
when a party gets more that 60 percent of votes.
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What is watchdog
A group who closely monitors every move of a party.
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What is prospective voting
Voting based on the actions the party may take.
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What is Single-Issue Groups
A group that focuses on only one issue
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What is Movement
People coming together to fight or change a law.
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What is coattail effect
a tendincy for a popular political party to get votes
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What is electoral collage
the system used to choose out president.
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What is party-line voting
Voting the same as your politica party.
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What is Lobbyist?
Influencing an issue.
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What is Hard money
asset based money
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What is 527 groups
A way of taxing
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What is Media
ways to give out information including newspapers, telivision, radio, and social media.
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What is Selective perception
the way people choose to interpret media.
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