Unit 3 Gov Vocab

4. An organization that raises and distributes funds to candidates running for office
6. An Immigrant who is legally authorized to live and work in the US permanently
9. An organization that seeks to achieve power by electing its members to public office
11. A plan or course of action initiated by government to achieve a stated goal
18. An organized effort to influence the policy process by persuading public officials to favor or oppose action on a specific issue
19. An ideology favoring a limited role for government and more private initiative by nongovernmental groups in efforts to solve society’s problem
20. The sum of many individual opinions, beliefs, or attitudes about a public person or issue

1. Associations and other voluntary groups that form a middle layer in society between government and individual families
2. Means of communication that reach a large audience
3. A legal process through which a person not granted citizenship by birth
5. Any organized group whose members share a common goal and try to promote their interests by influencing government policymaking and decision making
7. A basic set of political beliefs about the roles of government and the individual in society
8. The process by which people form their political values and attitudes
10. An ideology favoring an active role for government in efforts to solve society’s problems
12. A method of measuring public opinion by asking questions of a random sample of people and using thei answers to represent the views of the broader population
13. A person who has come to the US to live and work without the required legal paper
14. A person who by birth or naturalization wants certain rights and has certain duty in a nation-state
15. A political system in which two parties dominate the electoral process and control the governemnt
16. The idea that political power should be distributed and shared among various groups in a society
17. A political party’s statement of principles and objective