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	Popular Participation: Key Terms

The following terms are essential in order to complete the exercises in this unit. Click on the term to see its definition.


	agents of political socialization alienation	apathy

	civic duty closed primary congressional district	conservatives constituency

	Democrat	Democratic Party

	economic interest group election electoral college	electoral vote electors exit polls

	Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974	focus groups

	general election gerrymandering	grassroots lobbying

	hard money	House of Representatives

	ideological interest group	interest group

	liberals lobby	lobbyist

	majority party	minority party motor voter laws

	nominate	non-economic interest group

	open primary

	party convention party delegates policy political opinion political party political socialization	primary agents of political socialization public interest group public office public opinion public policy

	redistricting registration requirements registration	Republican Republican Party

	sampling scientific polling secondary agents of political socialization single-issue interest group	social factors soft money state primaries survey research

	telephone polls third party	tracking poll

	U.S. Congress	U.S. Senate

	voter turnout	voting rights

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