AP GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

HAGEDORN

POLITICAL PARTIES, CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS & INTEREST GROUPS

Chapters 7-9

Unit Overview: Topics covered in this unit comprise 10-20% of the multiple choice questions on the AP Exam. Major themes include: the functions, organization, and development of political parties, the effects of parties on the political process, electoral laws and systems, the activities of interest groups, the range of interests represented and the effects of interest groups on the political process.

Directions: Define all of the terms below in a spiral notebook reserved for AP Government vocabulary only. Consult the glossary in your text for all definitions FIRST and consult another source for any definition not found in your book SECOND. Vocabulary notebooks will be turned in on the day of the unit test. Late notebooks will not be accepted. Things to remember:

  • Number each term according to the list
  • Skip a line in between definitions.

  1. 501(c)(3) organization
  2. 527 organizations
  3. absentee ballot
  4. activists
  5. astroturf lobbying
  6. attack ads
  7. backbenchers
  8. blanket primary
  9. caucus (congressional)
  10. caucus (electoral)
  11. closed primary
  12. coattails
  13. critical election
  14. cross cutting
  15. dealignment
  16. delegates
  17. divided government
  18. Duverger's law
  19. electioneering
  20. electoral vote
  21. FEC
  22. free-rider problem
  23. frontloading
  24. general election
  25. GOTV
  26. grassroots lobbying
  27. hard money
  28. incumbent
  29. initiative petition
  30. insider strategies
  31. interest group
  32. latent
  33. legitimacy
  34. linkage institution
  35. lobbying
  36. matching funds
  37. mobilization
  38. Motor Voter Act
  39. national committee
  40. New Deal Coalition
  41. Olson’s law of large groups
  42. open primary
  43. outsider strategies
  44. PAC
  45. party coalition
  46. party platform
  47. plurality voting
  48. political efficacy
  49. political machine
  50. popular vote
  51. primary
  52. proportional allocation
  53. push polling
  54. realignment
  55. referendum
  56. regional primary

  1. responsible party model
  2. retail politics
  3. retrospective voting
  4. revolving door
  5. right to work laws
  6. runoff election
  7. salience
  8. seat shift
  9. single-issue group
  10. single-member districts
  11. soft money
  12. solidary benefits
  13. split ticket
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  1. spoils system
  2. straight ticket
  3. subgovernment
  4. superdelegate
  5. swing states
  6. taking the late train
  7. undervote
  8. unified government
  9. union shop
  10. wholesale politics
  11. winner-take-all system

READING SCHEDULE

Read and take notes each night over the pages assigned. Label each reading assignment with the appropriate page numbers and sections in the event you are given a pop quiz over a certain section. Keep up with the reading schedule unless I tell you otherwise. This means if you miss a class or there is a snow day, you are still responsible for the reading and note-taking. Regardless of where we are in our discussion, you must keep up with the reading schedule.

Day / Tonight’s Bianco Reading Assignment / Other Assignments
M 9/16 / Read “The Problem with Divided Government”
T 9/17 / Ch. 7 p.219-227
W 9/18 / p.228-239
Th 9/19 / p.239-249
F 9/20 / p.249-253
M 9/23 / Catch-up
T 9/24 / p.257-271
W 9/25 / p.271-280
Th 9/26 / p.281-290
F 9/27 / p.291-304
M 9/30 / p.309-323
T 10/1 / p.323-336
W 10/2 / p.336-343
Th 10/3 / Vocab Quiz
F 10/4 / Unit 3 Test MC
Vocab Due
M 10/7 / Unit 3 FRQ