AP GOV! Chapter One True and False (Can't Use Scatter :/)

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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


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