midterm 2 (given questions)

Question 1

1. In which landmark case did the Supreme Court rule that Congress could charter a national bank that could not be taxed by the states?

Answer 1

McColluc V. Maryland implies Necessary

Question 2

2. A ______ grant lays out strict rules for how to use federal funds designated for a particular program.

Answer 2

categorical grant

Question 3

3. In his definition of public opinion, Patterson claims that the opinions of private individuals become public opinion when they…

Answer 3

are revealed to others, voiced outlowd

Question 4

4. How do we measure the accuracy of a poll?

Answer 4

Sampling error

Question 5

5. Which ideological types favor government activism in the economic realm?

Answer 5

liberalism (liberals and populists)

Question 6

6. What group is the most powerful religious force in contemporary American society?

Answer 6

Religious Right

Question 7

7. Why are election results NOT effective as opinion polls?

Answer 7

Reveal only the choices of voters, not their reasons.

( we don’t know why people vote)

Question 8

8. What are the sources of polling error (problems with polls)?

Answer 8

Increasing refusal to participate in telephone polls
polled individuals unfamiliar with issues/non opinions
dishonesty by respondents
poorly worded questions and poor question order

Question 9

9. A survey that measures day-to-day changes in public opinion by updating the sample each day is called what?

Answer 9

tracking poll

Question 10

10. What are the different types of secondary socializing agents?

Answer 10

peers
media
leaders
events

fyi: Primary: family, school, church.

Question 11

11. According to Patterson, what does the term party identification refer to?

Answer 11

Enrollment loyalty to a political party, and formal membership

(emotional attactchment)

Question 12

12. Which party is the oldest party in existence today?

Answer 12

democratic party

Question 13

13. What term do pollsters use for a purported opinion offered by a respondent who, in truth, has no view on a specific issue?

Answer 13

non attitudes

Question 14

14. Attending a political meeting, contributing time or money to a campaign, and simply talking to others about politics are forms of what?

Answer 14

political participation

Question 15

15. How did some states get around the Fifteenth Amendment that forbade denying voting rights based on race?

Answer 15

imposing poll taxes or literacy tests

Question 16

16. Women gained the right to vote through which act or amendment?

Answer 16

19th

Question 17

17. The primary responsibility for registration of the individual voter rests with who in the United States?

Answer 17

States responsible for maintaining list of registered voters

Question 18

18. What did the “motor voter” law do?

Answer 18

make it easier for americans to register to vote

Question 19

19. Harvard’s Robert Putnam argues what in his book Bowling Alone?

Answer 19

America has been undergoing a long term decline in its social capital.
Putnam attributes that decline largely to television and other activities that draw people away from involvement in civic and political groups.

(changes in technology is a barrier)

Question 20

20. What purposes do political parties serve?

Answer 20

Parties recruit candidates into the electoral process and nominate them for office
Parties ensure that the will majority faction can be expressed
parties bring citizens into the electoral process

(to get their candidate elected)

Question 21

21. What are the three levels of a political party?

Answer 21

Party in the electorate
Party in government (office)
Party organization

Question 22

22. The first American political parties emerged from the conflict between who?

Answer 22

Federalist and democratic republicans

Question 23

23. What term refers to the periods of extraordinary party change?

Answer 23

Partisan Realignment/ new deal

Question 24

24. What is Murray Edelman’s claim about elections?

Answer 24

Elections are a symbolic reassurance

Question 25

25. What type of primary limits participation to voters registered or declared at the polls as members of the party whose primary is being held?

Answer 25

closed primary