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