college chap 11-15

Question 1

What are some methods used to make voting easier?

Answer 1

Earlying voting, mail in ballots, online registration, and extending polling hours,

Question 2

What does voter turn out refer to

Answer 2

The percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election

Question 3

What are common voting qualification in the U.S.?

Answer 3

U.S. citizenship, being at least 18 years old, and meeting state residency requirements.

Question 4

What does expanding the franchise and suffrage mean?

Answer 4

Granting the right to vote to more groups of people, such as women and minorities.

Question 5

What are the types of voting ballots?

Answer 5

Paper ballots, electronic voting machines, absentee ballots, and mail-in ballots.

Question 6

What are the types of electoral districts?

Answer 6

Single member districts and multi member districts

Question 7

How is the president of the United States elected?

Answer 7

Through the electoral college system

Question 8

What is gerrymandering?

Answer 8

The manipulation of electoral district boundaries for political advantage.

Question 9

What are the American party systems?

Answer 9

Periods in U.S. history dominated by different political party dynamics, such as the First Party System (Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans).

Question 10

What are the goals of political parties?

Answer 10

Winning elections, governing effectively, and promoting policy agendas

Question 11

What are primaries and caucuses?

Answer 11

Methods used by parties to select candidates for general elections

Question 12

What are political party platforms?

Answer 12

Statements of policies and priorities of political party

Question 13

How do ideology and political parties relate?

Answer 13

Parties are often defined by their ideologcical beliefs, such as liberalism or conservatism

Question 14

What are parties in government?

Answer 14

Political parties’ role in organizing and operating within governmental institutions

Question 15

What are parties in the electorate?

Answer 15

The voters who identify with and support a particular political party

Question 16

Who are party activists?

Answer 16

Individuals who actively promote and support a political party’s activities

Question 17

What are interest groups?

Answer 17

Organizations that seek to influence public policy to benefit their members.

Question 18

What was James Madison’s view on interest groups?

Answer 18

He recognized their potential for both good and harm, advocating for a large republic to mitigate factions.

Question 19

What is pluralism?

Answer 19

The theory that multiple groups can coexist and compete to influence policy

Question 20

What are the types of interest groups?

Answer 20

Economic, public interest, government, and ideological groups.

Question 21

What is the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Answer 21

A situation in which individuals, acting on their own interest, can end up worse off than if they had cooperated

Question 22

Who is Mancur Olson?

Answer 22

An economist known for his work on collective action and the free-rider problem

Question 23

What is the free-rider problem?

Answer 23

When individuals benefit from resources or services without paying for them or contributing to their provision

Question 24

What are interest group lobbying strategies?

Answer 24

Direct lobbying, grassroots lobbying, and coalition building

Question 25

What are the types of media?

Answer 25

Print, broadcast, digital, and social media

Question 26

How does ideology influence the media?

Answer 26

Media outlets may have ideological biases that influence their reporting and content

Question 27

What is soft news?

Answer 27

News that focuses on entertainment, lifestyle, and human-interest stories.

Question 28

What are leaks?

Answer 28

Unauthorized discolsures of confidential information to the media

Question 29

What is clickbait?

Answer 29

Content designed to attract attention and encourage users to click on links.

Question 30

What is the right of rebuttal?

Answer 30

The opportunity to respond to personal attakcks made on a broadcast medium

Question 31

What is the equal time rule?

Answer 31

A regulation requiring broadcasters to provide equal airtime to opposing candidates

Question 32

What is public policy?

Answer 32

Government actions and decisions aimed at addressing public issues

Question 33

What are contracts?

Answer 33

Legally binding agreements between parties

Question 34

What are laws of exchange?

Answer 34

Regulations governing trade and economic transactions

Question 35

What are market standards?

Answer 35

Accepted norms and practices within an economic market

Question 36

What are the goals of American economic policy?

Answer 36

Economic growth, full employment, and stable prices.

Question 37

What are some federal agencies that regulate the economy?

Answer 37

Federal Reserve, SEC, and FTC

Question 38

What is gross national product (GNP)?

Answer 38

The total value of goods and services produced by a country’s residents

Question 39

What is gross domestic procuct (GDP)?

Answer 39

The total value of goods and services produced within a country

Question 40

What is inflation?

Answer 40

THe rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services rises

Question 41

Who is John Maynard Keynes?

Answer 41

An economist known for his theories on government intervention in the economy

Question 42

What is monetary policy?

Answer 42

Government policies that control the money supply and interest rates

Question 43

What is fiscal policy?

Answer 43

Government policies on taxation and spending to influence the economy.

Question 44

What role do parties play in democracies?

Answer 44

Organizing elections, aggregating interestes, and facilitating government functioning.