Exam 2 Govt 2306 Flashcards

Exists for a short time and has several levels of conventions

The part of the party that works all year round at party building

Pragmatists and Ideologues

Includes fund raising, mobilization programs, public opinion polls, issue leadership and a printed newsletter

Candidate contributions, candidate recruitig, convention delegate selection, and pre-primary endorsements

A group of people who identify with a party and consider themseleves members.

Voting the whole ballot for all candidates of one party

Party ties are weakening

The party mechanism for co-operation between government branches

Business groups and trade associations, professional associations, union groups, ethnic and racial groups, and public interest groups

Direct lobbying (contacting the legislatures themselves) & indirect lobbying ( also known as gras roots lobbying)

The body who oversees the lobbyists in Texas

Lobbying by activating members to contact their legislators and launching an advertising campaign

Groups formed to solicit and use funds to elect or defeat candidates.

Passed to require both state party primaries and state convention choose party nominees

Elections held at any time other than regular/general elections

The elections in which the winer of the election takes the seat they are running for

all but the Mayoral race are non-partisan elections

Money, media, and marketing

Has been reactive (happening after a problem arises) rather than proactive (happening before a problem)

First poll taken to gauge the public and helps design the theme and advertising the candidate's image

Do I vote? If so, for whom?

Only in the House of Representatives Chamber

Only in the Senate Chamber

Covers the legislative branch of the TX government

Allows for the legislator to appoint a qualified temporary replacement in their absence

Is much lower than the average in other states

Only the governor

Changing the district lines to equalize the population in each district

Drawing district lines to either add or take away power of a particular group

Where the democrats fled to avoid having to vote

Democratic party in TX

Republican party in TX

Also is the senate president in the legislature

Subunits of the legislature appointed to work on designated subjects

A legislative organization whose members are all of the same party

Legislators who assist the Speaker of the House in leading the House of Representatives Chamber

Stated out by democrats in the legislature as the House Study Group and changed to be available to all Legislators and changed the name to the House Research Organization

A proposed law introduced into the legislature

In both chambers, a bill must be read 3 times before a final passage vote can be taken

The term for a legislator talking for an extended amount of time to avoid a vote on a particular bill

The term for a bill that has been passed in the legislature and is awaiting action by the governor

Spending more than is available in the budget to spend

The power of TX leadership to move money from one program or agency to another

The joint committee made up of 5 senators appointed by the Senate President and 5 House members appointed by the speaker of the house to compromise on a bill before going to a final vote.

Term for a proposal to ratify or amend the constitution

The number is chosen based on the number of votes for the party's most recent candidate for governor

They interact with one another but are each independent units of the party

1 must be male and the other must be female

can only happen in the House, the Senate must have public hearings on ALL bills

Party Organization, party in the electorate, and party in government.