American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REGULATIONS Campaign fi nance regulations place restrictions on what Americans can do to infl uence election ou ...

212 CHAPTER 7|ELECTIONS is when the other votes are split evenly so that one vote breaks the tie. Moreover, voting involves co ...

HOW DO VOTERS DECIDE?| 213 These fi ndings demonstrate the importance of mobilization in elections. As dis- cussed earlier, man ...

214 CHAPTER 7|ELECTIONS Cues g ive people a low-eff ort way to cast a vote that, more likely than not, is con- sistent with th ...

UNDERSTANDING THE 2012 ELECTIONS| 215 Figure 7.3 shows for the House of Representatives over the last generation. During that p ...

216 CHAPTER 7|ELECTIONS from defi cit reduction to social issues. The 2012 elections also illustrate the idea that process mat ...

UNDERSTANDING THE 2012 ELECTIONS| 217 the American economy was faltering due to high energy prices, the failure of sev- eral la ...

218 CHAPTER 7|ELECTIONS Many Republican candidates ran on platforms emphasizing the need to reduce government spending and reg ...

UNDERSTANDING THE 2012 ELECTIONS| 219 the primary season from several candidates, including former senator Rick Santo- rum, for ...

220 CHAPTER 7|ELECTIONS we have seen in other campaigns, there is little evidence that spending had much impact on the outcome ...

UNDERSTANDING THE 2012 ELECTIONS| 221 Republican-controlled state legislatures would use redistricting to put Democratic incumb ...

222 CHAPTER 7|ELECTIONS More commonly, however, elections are decided by broadly held perceptions that develop over time and a ...

CONCLUSION| 223 Conclusion Candidates in American national elections compete for diff erent offi ces using a variety of rules t ...

|ELECTIONS HOW DO AMERICAN ELECTIONS WORK? E Present the major rules and procedures of American elections. Pages 193–200 SUMMA ...

225 ground game (p. 203) attack ads (p. 206) Federal Election Commission (p. 207) hard money (p. 207) soft money (p. 207) CRITIC ...

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STUDY GUIDE|^227 SUMMARY The 2012 elections preserved the status quo, with a Repub- lican House, a Democratic Senate, and the r ...

Interest Groups 228 8 ...

229 THE GROUPS INVOLVED IN THE Occupy Wall Street movement argued that the government showered benefits on wealthy corporations ...

230 CHAPTER 8|INTEREST GROUPS CHAPTER goals Defi ne interest groups and describe the characteristics of different types of gro ...