Test 8

Which coutry was the first to provide for the general election of representatives through mass suffrage?

United States

At the local level, voters elect about___________ of 13,000 school districts across the nation

95 percent

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 politics

political participation

The effect of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which enfranchised eighteen-to-twenty-year-olds, was to

reduce the national voter turnout rate

Which of the following activies requires the most initiative?

running for office

The standard socioeconomic model of participation chiefly refers to

education, income, and occupation

Petitioning a local government council to rebuild a curb in front of your home is a(n)

example of seeking particular benefits

The majoritarian model of democracy favors

voting as the primary means of participation.

Compared with other nations in the world in granting suffrage to wome, the United States

was among the first

The text defines suffrage and franchise as the right to

vote

If the voter-turnout was computed on the basis of registered voters, about__________ of Americans vote

80 percent

Which of the following is an unconventional form of political participation?

Chanting slogans outside public officials windows

The amendment granting women's suffrage is the

Nineteenth Amendment

Women were first given the right to vote in

Wyoming

In general today, women politically participate

about the same as men

Elections, as an institutional mechanism:

bolster the power and authority of the state

A practical test of whether or not a government is democratic is whether

citizens can affect its policies by acting through its institutions

Someone who asserts that elections "socialize political activity" is contending that elections are mechanisms that maintain

government stability

Americans contributing money to a candidate's campaign is best defined as a form of

influencing behavior

Which of the following statements about unconventional is not true?

it consists of relatively routine behavior that uses stablished institutions of representative government

Political scientists knoww less about unconventional forms of political participation because

it is easier to collect data on conventional practices and they are biased toward institutionalized or conventional politics

Americans are less likely to_________ than citizens of other countries

join demonstrations

a direct primary is a

preliminary election to choose party candidates

Which of the following qualifications for voting was virtually eliminated in all states by the 1850s?

property ownership

Flying the American flag on holidays is an example of____________ behavior

supportive

Althought the United States has a much lower voter turnout than do other democracies, American may actually work harder at being good citizens because

the United States has far more election than do other countries

In nearly every other democratic country, the burden of registration is placed on

the government

The framers of the Constitution left the issue of voter enfranchisement to

the states

Studies of American who engage in "contacting behavior" like complaining to city hall find

they are not more likely to engage in other forms of political activity

One recent criticism of referenda and initiatives is that

they create an expensive "industry" designed around circulating petitions and spending millions

The amendment lowering the voting age to eighteen is the

twenty-sixth amendment

How does educaton affect voter turnout?

well-educated people are more likely to vote than are their less-educated counterparts