Political Science- Final Exam (Quiz Questions)
What is the V.O. Key's definition of public opinion?
"Those opinions held by private persons which governments find prudent to heed"
How many votes are needed for a writ of certiorari?
4
How many votes are needed to form a majority?
5
How many justices are currently on the court?
9
If a justice disagrees with the outcome of a case, she will file
A dissent
Which of the following is NOT strongly related to electoral outcomes in midterm elections?
A party's stance on specific issues
Which of the following is the most consistent with theories of retrospective voting?
A party's vote sharing lining up with presidential job approval
"Social desirability bias" would suggest
A poll suggesting 95% of Americans would vote for a woman probably overstates support
"Attitudes" are
An organized and consistent manner of thinking, feeling, reacting with regard to people, groups, social issues, or, more generally, any event in one's environment
Which of the following is true about polling:
As sample size increases, the projected outcome quickly approaches the true population value
In which of the following settings has the supreme court okayed public prayer:
At the beginning of congress
The parts of the "ABC" model include all the following EXCEPT
Attitude
The court protects speech such as "**** the draft" and pornography because:
Because it is concerned about the chilling effect on core speech
The original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court extends to all the following EXCEPT
Cases involving the writ of mandamus
Who defines the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
Congress
Who determines the number of justices in the Supreme Court?
Congress
Which of the following is NOT a prong of the Miller test
Does the work present the opportunity to offend children
Thermostatic response suggests
During a republican presidency, public opinion should become more liberal
Which of the following is not an exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement?
Generalized warrants
According to the lecture, things with a 14% chance of happening
Happen regularly
The civil rights cases (1875)
Held that the 14th amendment only applies to governmental action
The solicitor general is called the 10th Justice because
His office and status renders him especially persuasive to the justices
Jim Crow Laws
Included grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests
What do we mean by heuristics?
Information shortcuts employed by voters, who tend to be low information
Which of the following restrictions on abortion rights has the Supreme Court okayed?
Informational videos
Which of the following is NOT a "Big 5" personality trait?
Introversion
Hate speech
Is generally protected by the first amendment
Which of the following BEST describes the Hispanic share of the electorate?
It has been increasing gradually
What do political scientists mean when we talk about the "calculus of voting"
It is a model of the tendency of individuals to weigh the costs and benefits of voting when deciding whether to cast a ballot
Who are/were the midnight judges?
Judges appointed by John Adams in the waning days of his presidency
The attitudinal model of judicial behavior posits
Justices follow their ideology
Levels of political knowledge in america are
Low
Which of the following types of religious reference would the court be MOST likely to okay:
Prayer at church gathering
The civil rights act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations and employment on the basis of race and sex
The voting rights act of 1965
Prohibits state action that result in denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race
The RAS model includes all the following EXCEPT
Reject
What is judicial review?
Review of constitutionality of laws
De Jure segregation is
Segregation that occurs as a result of governmental action
The mode of constitutional interpretation that simply looks to the text of the document is called
Textualism
Incorporation of the bill of rights was accomplished through:
The 14th amendment due process clause
Stare decisis refers to
The Court's tendency to "let the decision stand"
Whether a government program constitutes an establishment of religion is determined by:
The Lemon Test
We discussed all of the following as reasons that African-Americans became democrats EXCEPT:
The Wilson administration's efforts at African-American outreach
When a public figure brings a libel claim he must prove
The person making the defamatory statement acted maliciously or knowingly
Under the Supreme Court doctrine
The state may prohibit abortion after the fetus becomes viable
Error margins are dependent upon
The value returned (e.g., 50% job approval, 10% job approval, etc)
What is the best predictor of whether an individual decides to vote?
Their socioeconomic status
DURING THE LATE 1800s:
There were African-American members of congress, and they were southern republicans
Which of the following is true about ideologies in America today
They exist, but mostly among high information voters
Why did the Dixiecrats walk out of the 1948 Democratic Convention?
To protest the inclusion of a strong Civil rights plank in the 1948 democratic platform
The Dixiecrats' strategy in 1948 was
To throw the election to the House and extract concessions from the democrats
Which of the following is NOT a type of heuristic discussed in class?
Use of "big 5" personality types
The Bill of Rights
Was applied against the states gradually, and almost all of the guarantees have been applied against the states today
The NAACP approach to ending Jim Crow laws
Was to gradually chip away at them
Standing doctrine refers to
Whether someone has been sufficiently injured or aggrieved to merit bringing a case
According to the class notes, which of the following scenarios is likely to cause cognitive dissonance?
You like me, you don't like Mr. Clarke, but Mr. Clarke and I like each other
When we said ideology must be constrained, what do we mean?
You must be able to predict some views from a given view for ideologies to exist
Holding seemingly contradictory attitudes causes:
cognitive dissonance
