Chapter 2 Majoritarian or Pluralist Democracy?

Majoritarian model

1. For some years our two congressional parties have been increasingly polarized, working less together to fashion compromise legislation. This consistent with the ________________ of democracy.

Much more

1. In most democracies other than the United States, there is ____________ support for the view that jobs and incomes for the unemployed are a right.

created a national system to check the background of gun buyers.

The controversial 1993 Brady Hill

prolonged exposure to and good communication with the agent, as well as being receptive.

The extent to which any socializing agent is influential depends on

there are limits to the national government's ability to regulate behavior based on the commerce clause.

The general conclusion of the Supreme Court in United States v. Lopez was that

No provisions exist for the use of referenda at the federal level.

What rules govern the use of referenda at the federal level?

normal distribution.

When Americans are asked to identify themselves on left-right ideological scales ("liberal," "moderate," or "conservative"), the data plotted on a graph is a(n)

order, equality

When elementary schools introduce students to authority figures outside the family, like the teacher, they prepare students for the value of __________; when they stress norms of democratic decision making and respecting the opinions of others, they teach ______________.

Oligarchy

A form of government that puts power in the hands of an elite is a (n)

third

About a _________ of immigrants in America are undocumented.

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According to the 2012 American National Election Study (ANES), about ____ percent of Americans believe the government should permit abortions in many, if not all, instances.

Procedural

According to the _____________ view of democracy, anti-gay marriage laws are democratic.

The government sometimes does not do what people want.

According to the text, which of the following is not a characteristic of public opinion?

Freedom, rights, or liberties.

Americans tend to define democracy in terms of ____________

Referendum

An election on a public policy issue is called a (n)

53 members

California's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives consists of

categorical

Formula grants and project grants are both types of __________ grants

40

Historians estimate that ______________ percent of Americans supported the Revolution in July 1776.

Conservatives

Maintaining social order is the most important political concept for which of the following groups?

participatory democracy

New England town meetings are an example of

Gallup Poll

One of the nation's oldest polls, the ___________ was started in the 1930s, and was most notably wrong in 1948 when it predicted that Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate, would defeat the Democratic incumbent, Harry Truman in the presidential election.

submitting redistricting plans to the Justice Department for approval.

Preclearance is the process of

the Massachusetts' Militia.

Shay's Rebellion was ultimately defeated by

an emphasis on business -related legislation.

Studies of the congressional agenda demonstrate that it is characterized

1950s

Survey methodology did not become a powerful research tool until the

Substantive theories of democracy.

The Bill of Rights is at the core of our

Greece.

The concept of democracy was initially defined centuries ago in ancient

Backfire effect

The fact that ideological conservatives believed even more strongly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 war after they were informed that subsequent investigations concluded that this was not true is an example of the

to reflect the views of the population with some predictable degree of accuracy.

The goal of the statistical theory of sampling is

state legislatures

The lines that define congressional districts are usually drawn by

checks and balances.

The power of the president to veto laws is an example of

pluralist

The text suggests that the United States fulfills the ____________ model quite well.

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A January 2014 poll showed that _____________ percent of Americans knew that the Affordable Care Act prohibits companies from denying health insurance to people because of any illnesses they may have.

establish a National bank.

A central question in the McCulloch case was whether or not Congress had the power to

Initiative

A citizen's group gathers enough signatures on a petition to force a popular vote on a statewide lottery proposal. This proposal would represent a (n)

special district

A government unit created to perform particular functions, such as fire protection and water purification and distribution is known as a (n)

bimodal.

A polling company surveying public opinion on Obama's health-care plan finds public opinion to be almost evenly divided, for and against. The graph of such a distribution would be characterized as

Fact that the best represented sectors in Washington are business and professional groups.

A sign that pluralist democracy might not be working well in the United States is the

choose what benefits them personally.

According to the self-interest principle, people tend to

minority rights.

All of the following are principles of procedural democracy except

pay more attention to polls on policy questions.

Based on polls testing how closely Americans follow news about politics, the text implies that policy makers should

adult peer groups and the mass media

As parental and school influences wane in adulthood, ______________ emerge as more important socialization agents.

Health

By 2013, _________ grants consumed more than 50 percent of national governments grants.

a problem because it created an appearance that the standards threatened state authority.

Federal government support for the common core was

the Supreme Court tended to support expansion of National authority.

From the 1930s to the mid 1990s,

family.

Generally, the first agent of political socialization that people are exposed to is

the wealthy will most often prevail.

In America, when the wealthy and the rest of the population have differing policy goals the preference of

demonstrated that these value choices cannot be explained by a one-dimensional liberal-conservative continuum.

In a 2012 election survey, respondents were asked whether abortion should be outlawed by government or a matter of personal choice, and whether government should guarantee people a job and a good standard of living or people should get ahead on their own. People's responses to the two questions

mentally disabled and /or seventeen years old.

In recent years, the Supreme Court has denied states the power to execute individuals who are

favored states' rights

Since 1995 the Supreme Court has frequently

skewed toward conservatism.

Since surveying the American public about ideology began, the ideological distribution of the public has become skewed toward conservatism.

dual

Someone who believes that the elastic clause of the Constitution should be narrowly interpreted is most likely to endorse the concept of _______ federalism.

the national government and state governments.

The Constitution explicitly recognizes

civil rights and liberties.

The basic standard of substantive democracy is that government must guarantee

pluralism

The complexity of the American federal system encourages

family, school, community, and peers

The major agents of early socialization in the United States are

regulatory

The national government has come to rely increasingly on its _______ power to shape state policies.

The functions and responsibilities of the national and state governments are clearly defined.

Which of the following is an incorrect description of the cooperative federalism model?

All of the above are reasons states have increased their capabilities.

Which of the following is not a reason that states have improved their ability to govern capably over the last few decades?

Libertarianism

Which of the following political groups strongly supports property rights and opposes attempts to regulate personal behavior and moral values?

Women are more likely to favor going to war.

Which of the following statements concerning gender and political beliefs is incorrect?

Congress temporarily claimed extra constitutional powers to meet the national emergency.

Which of the following statements regarding the New Deal era is incorrect?

Procedural

_____________ theory prescribes that a group should decide to do what the majority of its participant wants to do.

E-Government

____________ allows a person to acquire information and documents complaints to government officials.