AP GOV! Chapter One True and False (Can't Use Scatter :/)
Very few policies are made by a single policymaking institution in the United States.
TRUE
When taxes do not grow, tax revenue must grow to pay the additional costs, or a budget deficit results.
TRUE
All issues on the governmentʹs policy agenda are carefully considered by public officials.
FALSE
Government often acts on issues that are not especially high on the policy agenda.
FALSE
Governments have little incentive to provide public goods.
FALSE
It is clear that ordinary citizens can make sound political judgments on technical issues in our society.
FALSE
Kevin Phillipsʹ description of the 1980s as the ʺtriumph of upper Americaʺ is evidence of hyperpluralism in the United States.
FALSE
Most governmental policies are made by a single institution.
FALSE
Nearly all political scientists agree that the United States is in the midst of a culture war.
FALSE
New Hampshireʹs official state motto is ʺGive me liberty or give me death.ʺ
FALSE
The national government employs nearly ten million people.
FALSE
The revolutionary expansion of channels and Web sites anticipated in the near future is likely to enhance the political interest and involvement of young people.
FALSE
The voter turnout rate in the United States is one of the highest in the world.
FALSE
The writers of the Constitution were unanimously and devotedly committed to democracy.
FALSE
ʺGovernment by the peopleʺ is a meaningful and useful definition of democracy.
FALSE
A key aspect of egalitarianism is political equality.
TRUE
A non-decision is one type of policy decision made by government.
TRUE
A political issue arises when people disagree about a problem or about a public policy choice made to combat a problem.
TRUE
A recent study of college freshmen recently found that only 34 percent said that ʺkeeping up with politicsʺ was an important priority for them.
TRUE
AIDS is an example of policy being made by inaction.
TRUE
According to Robert Putnam, many of the problems of American democracy today stem from a decline in group-based participation.
TRUE
Elite theorists believe that whoever is elected to office in the federal government has little influence on policymaking.
TRUE
Elite theorists maintain that who holds office in Washington is of marginal consequence; the corporate giants always have the power.
TRUE
Immigrants to the United States often brought a sense of individualism with them.
TRUE
In a 2004 survey of political knowledge, young people provided the correct answer to only one-third of these questions, whereas people over 65 were correct half the time.
TRUE
In a democracy, public officials are supposed to pay attention to the problems that concern.
TRUE
Pluralist theory holds that because so many groups compete for power in the United States, none has a majority say and public policy roughly approximates the public interest.
TRUE
Politicians who argue that ʺthe people should be put firstʺ are emphasizing populism.
TRUE
Public goods are things that everyone shares, such as clean air.
TRUE
The American creed includes laissez-faire.
TRUE
The more participation in a democracy, the healthier the democracy is thought to be.
TRUE
The national government in the United States now spends approximately $2.8 trillion every year.
TRUE
