11. T/F

Question 1

Adverse selection is a problem caused by hidden action.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

In working toward their own self-interests, candidates usually try to reveal as much as possible about themselves.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Moral hazard is a problem produced by hidden actions by an agent.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Politicians engage in many acts that do not attract public attention.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Moral hazard makes the public vulnerable to abuses of the power delegated to elected agents.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Competition creates strong incentives for those vying for office to reveal information to the electorate.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Local decisions regarding the location and staffing of polling places can influence the outcome of elections.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

The wide use of elections is thought to keep government policy close to the preferences and interests of its constituents.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The responsibility for printing ballots and overseeing the conduct of elections lies with the federal government.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Voter turnout in the United States in the nineteenth century was significantly higher than today.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Almost all states in the United States allow felons and ex-felons to vote in presidential elections.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Some countries legally require their citizens to vote.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Australia and Germany require all citizens to vote.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

In recent years, voter turnout in the United States has been high relative to that in other Western democracies.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Voter turnout declined sharply around the turn of the twentieth century because a two-party system replaced the multiparty system of the nineteenth century.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

In the United States, the proportion of eligible voters actually going to the polls was considerably smaller in the nineteenth century than it is today.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Article I of the U.S. Constitution requires members of the U.S. House of Representatives to be elected from single-member districts.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Personal registration poses a significant burden for potential voters and decreases turnout.

Answer 18

true

Question 19

One purpose of requiring registration was to reduce corruption.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Registration requirements depress the turnout rates of those with less education and income more than for those with high levels of education and income.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Over the years, the government has consistently tried to make voter registration more difficult.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

The American electorate is smaller and skewed more toward the middle class than toward the population of all those potentially eligible to vote.

Answer 22

true

Question 23

In the absence of strong parties, participation rates drop the most among poorer and less educated citizens.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Some states allow registration on site at the polls on Election Day.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Some states have recently adopted laws requiring photo identification to vote, even though voting fraud by impersonation is extremely rare.

Answer 25

True