quiz 2 review Flashcards
What is the primary role of a party in the electorate?
a. Work to get citizens to identify the party’s values with their own beliefs and interests
b. Design governmental institutions in order to maximize efficiency in the development of public policy
c. Select candidates to seek public office and to assist candidates in organizing election campaigns
d. Develop coherent policy platforms to support the party’s electoral efforts
e. Organize the efforts of elected officials to achieve policy goals
a. Work to get citizens to identify the party’s values with their own beliefs and interests
What is the primary role of a party in government?
a. Develop coherent policy platforms to support the party’s electoral efforts
b. Select candidates to seek public office and to assist candidates in organizing election campaigns
c. Design governmental institutions in order to maximize efficiency in the development of public policy
d. Organize the efforts of elected officials to achieve policy goals
e. Coordinate the actions of ordinary citizens to support the party’s candidates for office
d. Organize the efforts of elected officials to achieve policy goals
If a member of a legislature does not favor a bill and offers an amendment for the current bill before
it goes to a vote, he or she is attempting to take advantage of a/an ________.
a. unstable coalition
b. split congress
c. divided government
d. separation of powers
e. amendment referral
a. unstable coalition
What was the change brought about by the introduction of primary elections?
a. Candidates became less focused on elections.
b. Interest groups sought outside help to appeal to voters.
c. Candidates sought to change the form of ballots.
d. Coordination between candidates and election judges became less direct.
e. Voters were able to select general election candidates.
e. Voters were able to select general election candidates
Which collective dilemma among members of a political party in the electorate is most clearly
resolved by the process of each party nominating a single candidate to run for any given office?
a. Coordination problem
b. Prisoner’s dilemma
c. Principal-agent problem
d. Unstable coalition
e. Collective action problem
a. Coordination problem
Since party labels reduce the costs of obtaining the information about candidates and policy
proposals necessary to make reasonable political choices, party identification may be understood as
a/an ________ that citizens use to facilitate political participation.
a. rational choice
b. informational shortcut
c. running tally of political judgments
d. psychological attachment
e. formal declaration of party affiliation
b. informational shortcut
To the extent that citizens’ party identifications are markers of individuals’ judgments about the
quality of various parties’ performance in office, party identification is best understood as a/an
________.
a. running tally of political judgments
b. rational choice
c. informational shortcut
d. formal declaration of party affiliation
e. psychological attachment
a. running tally of political judgments
In the current party system, Republican votes tend to come from multiple groups, including
____________.
a. labor union members, whites in the South, and white rural residents
b. conservatives, business owners and executives, and labor union members
c. gays and lesbians, conservatives, and well-paid professionals
d. wealthy retirees, white rural residents, and conservatives
e. whites in the South, white suburban residents, and residents of large cities
d. wealthy retirees, white rural residents, and conservatives
What is the primary role of a party as an organization?
a. Organize the efforts of elected officials to achieve policy goals
b. Design governmental institutions in order to maximize efficiency in the development of public policy
c. Select candidates to seek public office and to assist candidates in organizing election campaigns
d. Develop coherent policy platforms to support the party’s electoral efforts
e. Coordinate the actions of ordinary citizens to support the party’s candidates for office
c. Select candidates to seek public office and to assist candidates in organizing election campaigns
Since the 1960s, the percentage of party identifiers who would be upset if their children married
members of the opposite political party has ________ and is higher among _______ than _________.
a. stayed the same; Republicans; Democrats
b. increased; Democrats; Republicans
c. increased; Republicans; Democrats
d. decreased; Democrats; Republicans
e. decreased; Republicans; Democrats
c. increased; Republicans; Democrats
Duverger’s law predicts that single-member, plurality electoral systems are associated with the
presence of ________ principal political party/parties.
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
e. five
b. two
what do civil rights do ?
- ensure claims upon gov are fulfilled and people treated equally
- allow people to participate in gov (vote, petition)
- grant freedom from discrimination
what was the guide for the U.S. BOR ?
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
what do civil liberties do ?
ensure freedom from improper gov interference in indiviudal liberty
What are the civil war amendments ?
13th (no slavery), 14th (citizenship), 15th (suffrage)
What are the voting groups amendments ?
15th (AA), 19th (women), 24th (no poll taxes), 26th (18+)
what case did Brown v Board challenge ?
Plessy v Ferguson - “separate but equal”
what amendemnt is for judicial interpretation ?
9th (unenumerated rights)
What were the Alien and sedition acts ?
made citizenship harder for immigrants
what was dredd scott v stanford
slave sued –> lived in free state so should still be considered free –> lost (slaves dont equal citizens so cant sue)
