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No one may contribute more than...
$2500
How many newspapers did most major towns and cities have by the mid-20th century?
1
The voting age was lowered by the...
16th amendment
About how many interest groups are active in American policies today?
200,000
What is considered to be the majority of the Electoral College?
270
Around what % of eligible voters cast ballots during elections in the US?
50%
In order to be effective, interest groups have to lobby which branches of government?
ALL 3
Voter turnout in the US is quite low compared to that of...
ALL OF THE ABOVE(Europe, Oceania, Asia)
Which candidate won the popular vote in 2000?
Albert Gore
Unlike parties and interest groups, social movements...
Are not permanent institutions
Which staff member is most closely connected to a candidate while they are running for office?
Campaign manager
___ is considered a critical component of political socilization.
Civic education
In the US, political parties are often derided as ...
Corrupt, inefficient, and biased
The people at a party's national nominating convention that cast the votes determining a party's presidential nominee are called...
Delegates
New England town meetings are an example of...
Direct democracy
Campaign finance reform refers to what?
Efforts to curb and regulate campaign spending
What is the process by which people of a nation choose others to represent them?
Election
Which type of poll allows analysts to exclude nonvoters and isolate the opinions of voters, those who matter the most?
Exit Poll
James Madison refers to interest groups in Federalists #10 as...
Factions
Which of the following is not important for a candidate pursuing office?
Family ties
The 2 first political parties under the US Constitution in America was...
Federalist AND Democratic-Republican
______ effects are the influence on the respondent of how a polling questions is asked.
Framing
AFL-CIO, NRA, US Chambers of Commerce are all examples of...
Interest groups
Which political philosophy is most likely to support only practical policies that fix people's problems and improve people's lives?
Liberal
Which 2 philosophers traditional fall on opposite ends of the political spectrum?
Liberals and Conservatives
Political parties do NOT do which of the following...
None of the above
Whose presidential campaign demonstrated the worth of modern communication technology for increasing political engagement in the American people?
Obama
A primary election that is held to choose a party's candidate and that allows registered with the party and independents to vote is called an...
Open primary
___ refers to a seat in Congress without an incumbent running for reelection.
Open seat
What is the document called that contains a political party's core conventions and can issue priorities?
Party Platform
The more embedded a person is in hid or her community, the more likely it is that he or she feels both an obligation to participate and a sense of...
Political Efficacy
"The ways in which we learn and develop our opinions and attitudes about government" is a definition of...
Political Socialization
The procedure by which the state legislature offers proposed legislation for voter approval is called a...
Referendum
A poll about which of the following topics is most likely to yield skewed result is...
Same-sex marriage
Which is not a requirement of democracy in the modern world?
That citizens must participate in elections
____ is an example of unconventional political participation.
The Boston Tea Party
Since the Civil War, which of the following parties has been the only 3rd party to every finish second on a presidential race?
The Progressive Party
The US presidential election is held...
The Tuesday after the first Monday in November
The most important indicator of a person's political party affiliation is...
The influence of parents and family at a young age.
Which type of media outlet has the unique potential to either increase or decrease American civil knowledge in the future?
The internet
Analysts that are currently studying the effects of things like TV, internet, phones and video games are finding that...
They have a positive and transformative impact on political engagement
Throughout the 2012 presidential election we saw several _______ that asked respondents the same general set of questions daily and reported the average of a 3-day period.
Tracking polls
What is the most common method of political participation in the US?
Voting
Criticisms of political parties date back to what...
Washington's Farewell Address
The goal of the major parties is to...
Win elections
Most states award electors based on which system?
Winner takes all
The Farmers designed the Electoral College to...
Work without parties
