Political Science Test #3

According to lecture, in your professor's opinion, _____ is an election which measures up well by the criteria he lays out for a good election.

1992

According to the textbook, politically active social welfare groups that can spend unlimited amounts on political campaigns and not disclose the names of their donors so long as their activities are not coordinated with the candidate campaigns and political activities are not their primary objectives are know as _____.

501(c)(4) committees

According to lecture, all of these were reforms of the Progressives EXCEPT:

mandatory limits on the length and cost of campaigns

According to the textbook, how has partisan polarization affected the media?

many mainstream news sources are not explicitly ideologically

According to the textbook, which of the following statements concerning the factors affecting voters' decisions is true?

partisanship is the most reliable indicator of which candidate a voter will support

According to lecture, the most common way to participate in politics is _____.

voting

According to lecture, as president, which of his officials did Richard Nixon use to attack the news media, following criticism in the press of Nixon's speech about the "silent majority"?

Vice President Spiro Agnew

According to lecture, your professor feels that a good election meets several criteria. These criteria include all of the following EXCEPT:

a strong presence of demagoguery

According to the textbook, political scientists have shown that the media have two modes of coverage. These two modes are _____ and _____.

alarm mode, patrol mode

According to lecture, there are two standard ways of thinking about politics and Hollywood. These are _____ and _____.

as an industry; as people making things with political points of view

According to lecture, what is the primary reason, as Prof. Horner sees it, that the framers included the Electoral College as part of our system of electing presidents?

because the framers didn't trust the people

According to lecture, the Federalists and Jeffersonian Democrats formed because of disagreements about what issue?

how powerful the national government should be

According to lecture, elections are participation and participation ______ government.

legitimates

According to the textbook, a phenomenon in which people form strong opinions against a political party rather than in support of one is called ______.

negative partisanship

According to lecture, when people simply refuse to participate in polls (sometimes large parts of specific demographic groups refuse to do so) it causes a kind of bias in poll results called _____.

nonresponse bias

According to the textbook, a(n) ______ is an election in which the voter can wait until the day of the primary to choose which party to enroll in to select candidates for the general election.

open primary

According to the textbook, the process by which people form their underlying political beliefs and values is known as ______.

political socialization

According to lecture, the famous American Journalism Review study of question order effect examined the impact of changing the order of questions on people's impressions of _____.

press freedom

According to your textbook, the closest thing we have to a spontaneous form of popular political participation is/are ______.

protesting or rioting

According to lecture and your textbook, the collected attitudes or opinions of people is known as ______.

public opinion

According to lecture, a(n) _____ is a selection of individuals from a larger population.

sample

According to lecture, what did the Supreme Court decide in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, et. al?

that states may not limit the amount of campaign funds a campaign may use to repay a loan made by a candidate to their own campaign

According to lecture, which of these political parties is an example of a splinter party?

the American Independent Party

In lecture, we discussed several reasons America has a two-party system, as opposed to a thriving multi-party system. These reasons include all of the following EXCEPT:

the lack of public unhappiness with the two-party system

According to lecture, in campaign advertising, the most important factor in making an effective campaign commercial for television (or other visual media) is/are:

the visuals

According to lecture, what tool is used at the state level to make it very difficult for third-party candidates to get on the ballot?

they are required to collect many petition signatures before gaining access

According to the textbook, which of these statements regarding Americans' trust in the media is true?

those with greater trust in national news organizations tend to be more likely to see the news media gaining influence, while those with low levels of trust tend to see it waning

According to lecture, _____ refers to people voting for one party's candidates for some offices and the other party's candidates for other offices on the same ballot

ticket splitting

According to the textbook, which of the following statements about the evolution of political parties is true?

Although the United States has had a two-party system since the 1780s, the nature of the parties has changed over time with various issues and events producing fluctuations in the parties' members and positions

According to lecture, the reforms of the Progressives had one clear consequence for American politics that is not necessarily positive. What is that consequence?

Answer lower voter turnout

According to lecture, what in a famous essay, James Madison wrote about the inevitability of political parties in the American political system. What is the name of the essay and how did he refer to the party he opposed, the Federalists?

Candid State of Parties; the anti-Republican Party

According to lecture, the first known time of subliminal advertising in a presidential campaign took place in an ad about health care made by the _____ campaign.

George W. Bush

According to your textbook,which of the following statements about elections in the U.S. is true?

Some argue that primary elections are perhaps more consequential than general elections, because general congressional elections have become less competitive over time.

According to the textbook, the rule which explains why single-member, simple plurality districts lead to a two-party system instead of a multi-party system is called ______ rule.

Duverger's

According to lecture, what actor came out to the world as part of the plot of their sitcom, making them one of the first openly gay actors (and characters) on television?

Ellen DeGeneres

According to lecture, which candidate for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina seemed to be ahead of incumbent senator Jesse Helms, based on public opinion polls, but lost by significant margins in two elections?

Harvey Gantt

According to lecture, the Supreme Court upheld the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in the case _____ and then, less than a decade later, reversed that precedent in the case _____.

McConnell v. FEC, Citizens United v. FEC

According to lecture, the Federal Election Campaign Act and the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments were adopted in response to wrongdoing in which presidential administration?

Nixon

According to lecture, what is the name of the television producer who dominated the 1970s with several shows that explored political themes of ethnicity, gender, and politics?

Norman Lear

According to lecture, when deciding how much attention to pay to public opinion, elected officials act as all of these EXCEPT:

Parliamentarians

According to lecture, how many times has the winner of the popular vote NOT won the presidency? What was the first time that happened? What was the most recent?

Six; 1824, 2020

According to the textbook, what are the key policy differences between the Democratic and Republican parties?

The Republican Party supports reducing spending on social programs, cutting taxes on corporations, and protecting gun ownership, while the Democratic Party supports expanding funding for public education and social services, higher taxes on corporations, and gun control

According to lecture, about what fraction of the eligible population is NOT registered to vote?

about one third

According to lecture, when George W. Bush was trying to build public opinion for the elimination of the estate tax, pollster Frank Luntz suggested referring to it as the _____ in order to create more support.

death tax

According to lecture, when party control of the institutions of government is divided between the parties, it is called _____.

divided government

According to lecture, a recent study conducted at Stanford University discovered that reported margins of error are as much as _____ in reality.

double

According to lecture, possible benefits of a political parties to American democracy include all of the following EXCEPT:

ensure equality

According to lecture, the authors of the Constitution clearly outlined the role of political parties in the system of government they were designing. T/F

false