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patronage, 156
state, 156
Party platform, 155
Paterson, William, 31
Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act, 11, 289
details of, 302
passage of, 301–302
policymaking process, 298–303
reconciliation used for, 202
Patronage, 156, 232, 282
Paul, Alice, 101
Paul, Ron, 182
Paulson, Henry, 257, 258
Pearl Harbor, 9, 338
Peer group, political socialization
and, 119
Pelosi, Nancy, 102, 213, 301
Pendleton Act, 259
Pennsylvania Charter of
Privileges, 23
Pennsylvania Frame of
Government, 23
Pentagon Papers case, 74
People’s Republic of China. See
China
Per curiam, opinion, 281
Perot, Ross, 166
Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation
Act, 60
Petition, right to, 68
Philippines
Spanish-American War and, 338
unitary system of government
in, 46
Physician-assisted suicide, 83–84
Pinckney, Charles, 32
Plaintiff, 274
Plain view doctrine, 86
Plessy, Homer, 94–95
Plessy v. Ferguson, 94–95, 96
Plum Book, 258
Pluralism, 8
Plurality, 164
Pocket veto, 232
Police
limits on conduct of, 84
searches and interacting with,
89
Police power
defined, 50
search and seizure, 89Opinions
concurring, 281
defined, 281
dissenting, 281
majority, 281
per curiam, 281
publishing, 281
of Supreme Court of United
States, 281
unanimous, 281
Oral arguments, 280
Order
defined, 2
liberty versus, 8–9
Ordinances, 273
Oversight, 199P
Packing, in redistricting, 207
Paine, Thomas, 24–25
Pakistan
al Qaeda and Taliban in, 326
nuclear weapons and, 327, 336
Osama bin Laden and, 327
Palestinian Authority, 331
Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO), 331
Palestinians
conflict with Israel and, 331–332
United States as primary
defender of Israel against,
324
Palin, Sarah, 103, 241
Panama, American troops sent
to, 228
Pardon, 227
Paris, Treaty of, 28
Parker v. Gladden, 68
Parks, Rosa, 97
Partial-birth abortions, 83, 289
Party-column ballot, 186
Party identification
defined, 166
independent voters and,
166 –167
Party identifiers, 205
Party organization, 155–157
defined, 155
local party machinery, 156
national, 155
national chairperson, 155
national committee, 156
party-in-government, 156–157Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, 264
Occupy Wall Street movement,
elite theory and, 7
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 103, 284,
285, 287, 289
Office-block ballot, 186
Office of Administration, 239
Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), 217–218, 239,
241
Office of National Drug Control
Policy, 239
Office of Personnel Management
(OPM), 260
Office of Science and Technology
Policy, 239
Office of Special Counsel (OSC),
263
Office of the Attorney General,
249
Office of the Vice President, 239
Office of United States Trade
Representative, 239
Ogden, Aaron, 54
Oil industry
BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill,
256
disasters in energy industry,
306–307
fracking, 306
new U.S. production and,
305–306
politics of expensive oil, 306
U.S. dependency on foreign oil,
305
Oklahoma City bombing, 278, 324
Oligarchy, 4
Ombudsperson, 199
Open primaries, 182
Opinion leaders, influence of, 119
Opinion polls
campaigns and use of, 175
defined, 125
history of, 125–126
house effect, 128
problems with, 127–129
questions asked in, 128
sampling errors, 127
sampling techniques, 126–127
unscientific and fraudulent,
128–129
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