govt 2305 exam 2 review

Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building because he...

A period believe the US government had become a police state

Of 2175 Congressional elections in the 2000, about ___ decided by 2% points or fewer

A. 2%

The reasonable access rule required...

A. Broadcasters to make facilities available to all responsible parties in a community wishing to express conflicting views on issues.

A national survey in January 2012 found that people were most likely to say they "learned something" about the presidential campaign or candidates from...

A. Cable news

Market economies are Loosely called

A. Capitalist economies

The text observes that in the aftermath of the stimulus passed in response to 2008 economic turndown, there was a backlash that valued ______ over ______.

A. Domestic economic growth; foreign affairs

The now establish _________ obligated broadcasters to discuss public issues and to provide equal coverage of all options on those issues

A. Fairness Doctrine

The Contemporary political "gender gap" refers to the tendency of women to...

A. Identify more with the Democratic Party than men do

_____ was the primary reason for failure of the Occupy Movement to achieve a lasting organizational existence

A. Inability agree on issues, goals, and means

The phrase "uncontrollable outlays" refers to the fact that...

A. Much of the budget is already committed bypass contracts and agreements

The lobbyist primary job involves...

A. Passing information on to their employers and to policymakers

Compared with other nations in the world in granting suffrage to women, the United States...

A. Was among the first

How does education affect voter turn out?

A. Well-educated people are more likely to vote rather than their less educated counterparts

Since the present two party system was established how many minor party candidates have been elected to the presidency

A. Zero

by national law _____ of the seats is the House of Representative and _____ of the seats is the Senate are filled in a general election held every even-numbered year

A. all; 1/3

Campaign Finance laws are challenged as a violation of the _______ amendment

A. first

when John Maynard Keynes suggested deflicit financing by the government to stabilize the economy, he was advocating the use of...

A. fiscal policy

The following qualifications for voting was virtually eliminated in all states by the 1850s?

A. property ownership

International affairs , including Foreign aid and the budget of the state department and embassies and consultants in other countries, consume ____ percent of the FY 2015 budget

A. under 1.5

What fraction of the voting age population will vote in a primary election?

B. 1/4

The best the Socialist Party has ever done in America with the captured 6% of the vote in the election of ...

B. 1912

in 1955 there were 9 workers for every Social Security beneficiary; by 2011 there was _____.

B. 2.9

The national DREAM Act would ...

B. Allow illegal immigrants brought to the United States of children to become eligible for legalize status

one difficulty with the block grant funding program set up by TANF is ...

B. Defending is set to a fixed amount and does not change in response to increased needs

A respondent who agrees with the statement, "by law, a woman should be able to obtain an abortion as a matter of personal choice" values ...

B. Freedom over order

Which of the following is not an argument made by the authors for why interest groups benefit our political system?

B. Interest groups always form when the corresponding need for them develops

The two ideological protest parties that together manage over 1% of the vote in the 2012 presidential race were the _____ party and the _____ party

B. Libertarian; Green

The Free Rider program increases the difficulty of attracting ______ .

B. Paying members

a direct primary is a...

B. Preliminary election to choose party candidates

Today, the mass media conduct most polls...

B. Telephone

In the 1950s political campaigns were conducted primarily to ...

B. Through political party organizations

Learning political party identification from parents is known as the blank model of partisanship.

B. Transmission

Studies of the party identification and ideology orientation of Voters show that...

B. Voters tend to identify with a party that most reflects their ideological orientation

American unemployment reached _____ percent by 1933 in the deaths of the Great Depression

C. 25%

The US fiscal year 2015 budget submitted by President Obama reflected expended federal government spending of approximately ______ dollars

C. 3,901 billion

A recent study of 77 members of Congress who were defeated for reelection or left voluntarily found that more than ____ of them took jobs with firms that Lobby

C. 40%

a method of delegate selection that begins with local meetings and accumulates in a state convention is also known as the ...

C. Caucus method

generally the first agent of political socialization that people are exposed to is...

C. Family

The major agents of early socialization in the United States are...

C. Family, school, community, and Pierce

We elect a president via 50 state elections combined into the Electoral College; thus, presidential elections are best described as ______ elections

C. Federal

most Industries prefer not to be regulated but when regulation becomes inevitable they usually preferred that it come...

C. From the federal government so that it will be uniform Nationwide

The issue of urban renewal in Boston's West End illustrates the point that...

C. Groups faced with policies harmful to their interest often lack of the leadership and resources to organize

______________ make sure that people in government know what their members want and that their organizations know what the government is doing

C. Lobbyist

In response to financial stress, some have suggested that newspapers operate as ___ allowing them to funds through endowments, donations and perhaps government support

C. Nonprofits

In the United States today, the mass media...

C. Provide a two-way channel of communication between the people and the government

The term solid South refers to...

C. South consistent Democratic voting record for much of the 20th century

The essence of supply-side economics is that...

C. Taxes should be cut to stimulate Investments, and government regulation of business should be decreased

which event helped to shape the partisan patterns of the North and South for nearly a century?

C. The Civil War

The one result of ____ was a direct Primary in which candidates must campaign not only for election, but also for the nomination of their

C. The Progressive Movement in the 1920s

Pressure on individual to conform to Community Values or views is strongest when...

C. The community is homogeneous

The ____ defied conventional wisdom regarding political change through a board and sustained series of protests an unconventional actions.

C. The rights movement

Social Security is referred to as a pay-as-you-go system meaning that...

C. Today's workers support today's program beneficiaries

a primary election in which voters must declare their party affiliation before they are given the primary ballot is a ____ primary

C. closed

Department of Education successfully lobbies to have added to the budget a new federal funded program that would provide for technology in classrooms. Bending on this program would be best described as _____ spending

C. discretionary

the first objective of campaign advertising is to...

C. ensure that a candidate has a high level of name recognition among voters

what most distinguishes political parties from interest groups like The AFL-CIO and the National Association of Manufacturers is that...

C. interest groups do not nominate candidates to run as their avowed Representatives

the ____ party was an agrarian "free- silver" party that was attractive in part because it seemed as a response to the depression of 1896

C. populist

Alexis de Tocqueville believed that the American tendency to join associations...

C. reflects a strong democratic culture

if a policy rationale and political will our present, ____ would eliminate expensive Federal entitlement programs

C. the Congress

In 2012 an income below ________ would place a family of four below the official US poverty threshold

D. $23,492

At the time of Reagan's economic recovery Tax Act of 1981 the top marginal rate for the highest income group of Americans was...

D. 70%

The elementary and secondary Education Act of 1965 provided national government Aid to local school districts in order to improve the education of...

D. Economically disadvantaged children

Which of the following is not a role of interest groups?

D. Electing their members to public office

The New Deal occurred under President ...

D. Franklin D Roosevelt

The media Executives, New elders, and prominent reporters who decide which event to report and how to report them are known as...

D. Gatekeepers

The farmers guess that the ____ would reflect public opinion, especially on the crucial issues of taxes and government spending

D. House of Representatives

Because it depends on mass participation in politics, majoritarianism tens to...

D. Limit individual freedom

American political parties operate more in keeping with the ____ model of democracy

D. Pluralist

The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott is an example of...

D. Successful unconventional political participation

the idea of tax cuts for the rich that will then trickle down to working people in the form of additional jobs and income is consistent with...

D. Supply-side economics

__________ is political action that expresses allegiance to Country and government

D. Supportive Behavior

An important part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was ...

D. The Economic Opportunity Act

Presence of multiple political parties...

D. To split opposition to a dominant regime and help to maintain power

in 2011 news analyst found that cable TV was particularly devoted to _____ whereas online news sites and newspapers provided more coverage of _____

D. election coverage; foreign affairs

The People's Party or populist party could at least Brad that it is the first third party since 1960 to...

D. to win and electoral votes

voter turnout was computed on the basis of registered voters, about _____ of America's votes.

E. 80%

Despite new technology options the desperate criticism that in its current form is polarized sex in an unhealthy way , ____________ of Americans listen to traditional a.m. / FM radio weekly

E. 90%

In a poll cited in the text, _____ percent of Americans said they favored Universal background checks for gun ownership

E. 92 percent

Research on the impact of soft news find it...

E. All of these choices are true

By comparison with most other Democratic countries, the tax burden on a American citizen is higher than _____ other countries citizens

E. Almost no

A group that has as its purpose issues on related to its members vocations is a...

E. Citizen group

The role of appropriations committee is too...

E. Decide which program will be funded

President ____ passed the Medicare drug program expanding welfare benefits for seniors

E. George W bush

Economic criticisms of Keynesian theories include ...

E. Government spending programs take too long to enact to help the economy and government spending is easier to start than to stop

With no one taking the lead in an interest groups traditional agenda building roll, in the wake of the Newtown massacre the only legislation that passed was _______.

E. No legislation was passed in response to the Newtown massacre

The goal of the statistical theory of sampling is...

E. To reflect the views of the population with some predictable degree of accuracy

a government spending in excess of tax revenues to combat an economic slump is known as...

E. deficit financing

To stay in business in the digital age, many newspapers have ____ their online content with varying degrees of success

E. instituted paywalls for

most referenda are placed on the ballot by...

E. legislatures

Which statement is true about most Congressional elections today?

E. most Congressional elections are not very competitive

one of the most convincing explanation for the persistence of the two party system in the United States lies in its use of ...

E. single winners chosen by a simple plurality of votes

although terrorism is an unconventional political action, it is generally not counted as unconventional political participation because...

a. Terrorist do not seek to influence government but to destroy it

the fact that ideological conservatives believe even more strongly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 War after they were informed that subsequent investigators concluded that this was not true is an example of the...

a. backfire effect

decriminalization of currently illegal drugs would more likely be favored by ____ and opposed by _____.

a. libertarians; conservatives

content analysis of network news suggest that most coverage focuses on...

a. the president

the Era of Good Feelings was characterized by...

b. A lot of party competition

surveys show today that approximately ___ of the American population today think that the United States needs a third party

c. 1/2

according to the 2012 American national election study, about ____ percent of Americans believe the government should permit abortions in mini, if not all, instances

d. 61%

Entering the 2012 general election Obama and Romney both focused on nine states that voted for Bush in 2004 but for Obama in 2008. Closely contested States like these are known as...

e. Swing States and Battleground States

a country with the lowest voter turnout among eligible voters in congressional election is...

e. United States