Quiz 7
The typical procedure for an initiative requires petitions to feature the signatures of _________ of the number of registered voters in a state.
5 to 10 percent
Which of the following qualifications for voting was virtually eliminated in all states by the 1850s?
Property ownership
Americans contributing money to a candidate's campaign is best defined as a form of
influencing behavior.
Most referenda are placed on the ballot by
legislatures
The text defines __________ as the actions of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support government and politics.
political participation
In Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme Court found _________ is(are) unconstitutional.
preventing blacks from voting in primary elections
The effect of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which enfranchised eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds, was to
reduce the national voter turnout rate.
A legal action brought by a person or group on behalf of a number of people in similar circumstances is also known as a(n)
class action suit.
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to
discourage African Americans from voting.
The standard socioeconomic model of participation chiefly refers to
education, income, and occupation.
The majoritarian model of democracy favors
voting as the primary means of participation.
Women were granted universal suffrage in
1920.
Citizen mobilization to stop construction of a nuclear waste facility near their homes would be an example of the _________ phenomenon.
NIMBY
__________ is political action that expresses allegiance to country and government.
Supportive behavior
Women compared to men, and blacks compared to whites, tend to have political participation rates today that are
about the same.
Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building because he
believed the U.S. government had become a police state.
Unconventional political participation involving assembling crowds to confront businesses and local governments is known as
direct action.
Of all the social and economic variables affecting political participation, _________ is the strongest single factor.
education
One criterion that must be met for a country to be democratic is that it must
have more than one political party.
Because it depends on mass participation in politics, majoritarianism tends to
limit individual freedom.
Researchers have found that political apathy is _________ in the United States compared to almost all other nations.
much lower
According to the text, Americans were __________ politically apathetic in 2012 compared to 1952.
neither more nor less
The ability of groups to make government respond to their special problems is best described as part of ________ theory.
pluralist
According to the text, violent unconventional political participation is
sometimes worth the risk.
The 1955 Montgomery bus boycott is an example of
successful unconventional political participation.
During the Vietnam War, protesting students on college campuses
All of the above are true.
The amendment granting women's suffrage is the
Nineteenth Amendment.
Which of the following was the first known act of unconventional participation in America?
The Boston Tea Party
All of the following are regarded in the text as examples of unconventional participation except
Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
A practical test of whether or not a government is democratic is whether
citizens can affect its policies by acting through its institutions.
Voting in the United States decreased during the 1970s and 1980s. Other forms of participation
increased or remained stable.
Americans are less likely to __________ than citizens of other countries.
join demonstrations
In 2012 and 2013, voters approved a number of ballot propositions, including ones in Colorado and Washington that
legalized marijuana.
In Oregon, everyone votes by
Someone who asserts that elections "socialize political activity" is contending that elections are mechanisms that maintain
order
A direct primary is a
preliminary election to choose party candidates.
Although terrorism is an unconventional political action, it is generally not counted as unconventional political participation because
terrorists do not seek to influence government but to destroy it.
The country with the lowest voter turnout among eligible voters in congressional elections is
the United States.
By law, the U.S. presidential election occurs
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
In nearly every other democratic country, the burden of registration is placed on
the government.
Political scientists know less about unconventional forms of political participation because
they are biased toward institutionalized, or conventional, politics, and it is easier to collect data on conventional practices.
Studies of Americans who engage in "contacting behavior" like complaining to city hall find
they are not more likely to vote than other Americans.
Compared with other nations in the world in granting suffrage to women, the United States
was among the first.
