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No one may contribute more than...

$2500

How many newspapers did most major towns and cities have by the mid-20th century?

1

The voting age was lowered by the...

16th amendment

About how many interest groups are active in American policies today?

200,000

What is considered to be the majority of the Electoral College?

270

Around what % of eligible voters cast ballots during elections in the US?

50%

In order to be effective, interest groups have to lobby which branches of government?

ALL 3

Voter turnout in the US is quite low compared to that of...

ALL OF THE ABOVE(Europe, Oceania, Asia)

Which candidate won the popular vote in 2000?

Albert Gore

Unlike parties and interest groups, social movements...

Are not permanent institutions

Which staff member is most closely connected to a candidate while they are running for office?

Campaign manager

___ is considered a critical component of political socilization.

Civic education

In the US, political parties are often derided as ...

Corrupt, inefficient, and biased

The people at a party's national nominating convention that cast the votes determining a party's presidential nominee are called...

Delegates

New England town meetings are an example of...

Direct democracy

Campaign finance reform refers to what?

Efforts to curb and regulate campaign spending

What is the process by which people of a nation choose others to represent them?

Election

Which type of poll allows analysts to exclude nonvoters and isolate the opinions of voters, those who matter the most?

Exit Poll

James Madison refers to interest groups in Federalists #10 as...

Factions

Which of the following is not important for a candidate pursuing office?

Family ties

The 2 first political parties under the US Constitution in America was...

Federalist AND Democratic-Republican

______ effects are the influence on the respondent of how a polling questions is asked.

Framing

AFL-CIO, NRA, US Chambers of Commerce are all examples of...

Interest groups

Which political philosophy is most likely to support only practical policies that fix people's problems and improve people's lives?

Liberal

Which 2 philosophers traditional fall on opposite ends of the political spectrum?

Liberals and Conservatives

Political parties do NOT do which of the following...

None of the above

Whose presidential campaign demonstrated the worth of modern communication technology for increasing political engagement in the American people?

Obama

A primary election that is held to choose a party's candidate and that allows registered with the party and independents to vote is called an...

Open primary

___ refers to a seat in Congress without an incumbent running for reelection.

Open seat

What is the document called that contains a political party's core conventions and can issue priorities?

Party Platform

The more embedded a person is in hid or her community, the more likely it is that he or she feels both an obligation to participate and a sense of...

Political Efficacy

"The ways in which we learn and develop our opinions and attitudes about government" is a definition of...

Political Socialization

The procedure by which the state legislature offers proposed legislation for voter approval is called a...

Referendum

A poll about which of the following topics is most likely to yield skewed result is...

Same-sex marriage

Which is not a requirement of democracy in the modern world?

That citizens must participate in elections

____ is an example of unconventional political participation.

The Boston Tea Party

Since the Civil War, which of the following parties has been the only 3rd party to every finish second on a presidential race?

The Progressive Party

The US presidential election is held...

The Tuesday after the first Monday in November

The most important indicator of a person's political party affiliation is...

The influence of parents and family at a young age.

Which type of media outlet has the unique potential to either increase or decrease American civil knowledge in the future?

The internet

Analysts that are currently studying the effects of things like TV, internet, phones and video games are finding that...

They have a positive and transformative impact on political engagement

Throughout the 2012 presidential election we saw several _______ that asked respondents the same general set of questions daily and reported the average of a 3-day period.

Tracking polls

What is the most common method of political participation in the US?

Voting

Criticisms of political parties date back to what...

Washington's Farewell Address

The goal of the major parties is to...

Win elections

Most states award electors based on which system?

Winner takes all

The Farmers designed the Electoral College to...

Work without parties


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