PSci 101 Exam 2
Retrospective
" ________ voting " refers to voters choosing whether or not to vote for a candidate based on overall incumbent performance , especially in regard to the economy .
Civil Society / interest groups
Churches , clubs , businesses , and soccer leagues are all elements of ______.
Public Opinion
Citizens ' reactions to current , specific issues and events is called
Location , more educated and richer people
In the USA today , which of the following characteristics would make a person less likely to vote ?
Income , education , gender
In the United States today , which of the following factors would make a person more likely to vote ?
rich , wealthy , buisnesess
Interest groups in the United States tend to over - represent ______
government officials , Administration
Interest groups typically approach ________ looking for a favorable interpretation of existing rules and regulations
Not everyone is being represented
Which is a major shortcoming of a government that is heavily influenced by interest groups ?
mail , face to face interviews , phone call
Which method of polling / surveying is best but very expensive and time - intensive ?
Two parties
Which of the following is a product of a single - member district electoral system ?
Easier , less expensive , reaching more people
Which of the following is a reason that the telephone survey is the most common polling method in the United States ?
Not " Multiple parties , high voter turnout , unstable Coalitions . "
Which of the following is not a result of proportional representation electoral systems ?
Automatic voter registration
Which of the following would you expect to see in a country with routinely high voter turnout ?
Changing electoral System
Which of these changes is likely to have the greatest impact on the number of parties in a country's political system ?
choices / competition
Which of these is a characteristic of single - party systems ?
Policy won't always be skewed in one direction
Which of these statements describes the theory of countervailing power regarding interest groups ?
Stay out of politics , wouldn't be hated
Which statement explains why public opinion is an important consideration for both democratic and authoritarian governments ?
Money brings access . Voice wont be heard
Which statement explains why the issue of access challenges the pluralist theory ?
stronger Political parties
Which statement helps to explain why Sweden has a higher voter turnout rate than the United States ?
Pluralism
Which term describes a democratic system where all kinds of people with different opinions and values compete to influence government policy ?
Electral System
_______ details , legally , how elections are run .
Interest Groups
_______ is a non - publicly accountable organization that attempts to promote a shared private interest by influencing public policy outcomes .
Public Opinion
_______ look ( s ) for individuals views about specific leaders , events , and issues .
Increase the Sample size
A surveyor / pollster can decrease a survey's / poll's margin of error by ________
Parochial
According to Almond and Verba , the _______ political culture is the least democratic and has a population that has neither the desire nor ability to participate in politics .
Center Seeking
According to Sartori , parties become more moderate when competing in a _______ manner .
Participant , subject , parochial
Almond and Verba argue that the following are the existing general political cultures :
two
Countries that use single - member districts tend to have ______ systems .
About specific issues
Elections rarely show _______
It increases voter turnout
How does education affect the likelihood that people will vote ?
The parties combine
If a " first - past - the - post " country has three viable political parties , but no one ever reaches 50 percent of the vote , what is the most likely result over time ?
Stability
If you were interested in designing a country with moderate , centrist , and pragmatic politics , what feature would you be most likely to support ?
Coalition of interest groups
In democratic societies , large political parties are typically______
Catchall
In most democratic countries , major parties attempt to be _______ to win a large number of votes
Senior Party leaders
In proportional representation systems that use party lists , what types of individuals can expect to be put at the top of those party lists ?
High levels of education
More women than men have voted in recent U.S. elections , reflecting the fact ________
Sacialism , weal fare parties
On a left - right ideological spectrum , which types of parties are the farthest left ?
Dominant
Party systems are most easily categorized by the number of parties in them . A system with several parties contesting elections but only one of them ever winning is called a _______ system .
Money; education
People with more ______ and higher _______ are more likely to vote and participate in politics .
How they go about trying to influence interst groups
Political parties differ from interest groups because parties
shape
Polls / surveys can track public opinion as well as
Two parties
Single - member district electoral systems tend to produce _______
plurality
Single - member districts produce winners based on______
political Culture
Studies of ________ look for basic , general values on politics and government .
Public opinion; political culture
Studies of ________ look for individuals views about specific leaders , events , and issues while studies of ______ look for basic , general values on politics and government .
violent / non violent protest
Suppose you belong to a single - issue interest group with very little funding . Which of these is your best approach to influencing public policy ?
Random sampling
The most accurate public opinion polls / surveys utilize which of the following methods ?
Center Fleeing
When the number of parties is greater than five or six , Sartori finds that parties compete in a ________ manner .
1st amendment
To prevent interest groups from influencing politics , it would be necessary to curtail their ________
Centralized Party System . Party leaders dictate what happens
Under which of these systems is party discipline likely to be highest ?
reveal public opinion on specific issues
What does public opinion polling provide that election results cannot ?
rich , wealthy , buisnesess
What group or groups do interest groups tend to over - represent ?
Suprise / Confusion
What is American voters ' general response to ballots ?
about 1,000
What range below contains the ideal number of survey respondents for an accurate reflection of public opinion in a large population of millions of people ?