| A | B |
|---|
| U.S.interest group set up specifically to contribute money to election campaigns | Political Action Committees |
| Campaign contributions to parties and issue groups so as to skirt federal limits on contributions to candidates | Soft Money |
| Interest group efforts to influence elected officials and the bureaucracy. | Lobbying |
| Statement to a court by persons not party to a case. | Amicusn Curiae |
| Groups seeking to elect office-holders under a given label. | Political Party |
| Melding separate interests into general party platforms. | Interest Aggregation |
| Voters electorally reward or punish governing party for its policies. | Responsible Party Government |
| President Johnson's ambitious policy of social reforms which included the Head Start Program and the War on Poverty. | The Great Society |
| A party run by a few political professionals and only intermittently active. | Cadre Party |
| A Party that attempts to gain committeed adherents usually has formal membership. | Mass Party |
| A Country having two big and one or more small parties | Two Plus Party System |
| U.S. System of weighting popular presidential vote to favor smaller states. | Electoral College |
| A Major long-term shift in party identification | Realignment |
| A single election which proves to result in a realignment of political power. | Critical Election |
| Major longterm decline in party identification. | Dealignment |
| The Israeli national parliament which is elected based on proportional representation. | Knesset |
| An electoral system in which there are single member districts with the winner being the candidate or party that wins a plurality of the vote. | Winner Take All |
| A political system where two or more parties govern jointly. | Coalition Government |
| An electoral system in which small parties can win seats by gaining a percentage of the vote nationwide. | Proportional Representation |
| The drawing of electoral district maps for partisan advantage. | Gerrymander |
