Chapter 8: Political Participation Political Participation
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Q1) Those who see the decline of voter turnout as a function of party organization change believe all of the following EXCEPT
A) parties originally aimed to increase mass political participation.
B) parties used caucuses and conventions and fought against legal barriers to voting to increase participation.
C) the nation was split by region in the late 1890s, and two-party competition decreased in many places.
D) both parties became more liberal.
E) citizens lost interest in politics because the parties did not respond to their needs.
Q2) The 2008 presidential election featured a record level of voter turnout among people aged thirty and below.
A)True
B)False
Q3) After adjusting for voter registration,voter participation in America is comparable to that of Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify and describe the six different classifications of U.S.voters.
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Chapter 13: Congress Congress
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Q1) Congressional power is exercised primarily by committee chairs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify the six distinct stages in the history of the House of Representatives.
Q3) Identify and explain the three theories of congressional voting.
Q4) A congress concerns itself mainly with legislative action; a parliament concerns itself with debate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The conservative coalition in Congress consists of
A) Republicans and Southern Democrats.
B) Republicans and Western Democrats.
C) Democrats and Southern Republicans.
D) Democrats and Western Republicans.
E) Democrats and Northeastern Republicans.
Q6) Of the three types of resolutions (simple,concurrent,and joint),a joint resolution is the only one that requires the signature of the president.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Presidency the Presidency
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Q1) The greatest source of presidential power is found in politics and public opinion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Polls are significant for their ability to not only pick a policy,but also
A) the policies to sacrifice to bring it about.
B) how quickly to bring it before Congress.
C) how much money to budget for it.
D) the agency that will carry it out.
E) the language used to explain it.
Q3) In this method of White House staff organization,used by Carter,cabinet secretaries and assistants reported directly to the president.
A) Ad hoc structure
B) Pyramid structure
C) Circular structure
D) Tubular structure
E) Intuitive structure
Q4) Discuss the opinions of James Wilson,Roger Sherman,and Alexander Hamilton about how the president should be selected.
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Chapter 15: The Bureaucracy the Bureaucracy
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Q1) Among the effects of the many constraints on government agencies is the fact that
A) many important issues tend to receive scant attention.
B) taking action is easier than blocking action.
C) lower-ranking employees are reluctant to make decisions on their own.
D) government sometimes acts too quickly.
E) decisions are often sweeping and inflexible.
Q2) Government-by-proxy is used to describe a government that is cutting key services.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Any large business will have a bureaucracy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bureaucracy is an outgrowth of representative democracy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define bureaucracy and give examples of types of bureaucracies.
Q6) What are some of the effects of constraints on bureaucratic agencies?
Q7) Discuss some of the procedures to fire a federal bureaucrat.
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Chapter 16: The Judiciary the Judiciary
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Q1) What does the U.S.Constitution have to say about the size of the Supreme Court?
A) It specifically sets the number of justices at six, later amended to nine.
B) It specifically sets the number of justices at nine.
C) It suggests but does not mandate a Court of nine justices.
D) It does not indicate how large the Court should be.
E) It specifically places the matter in the hands of the House of Representatives.
Q2) Fee shifting is the practice of
A) dividing attorneys' fees among all participants in a class-action suit.
B) reducing fees if the votes of appellate court judges are divided.
C) getting the government to pay the fees of all parties.
D) having attorneys adjust their fees according to their experience and the damages awarded.
E) getting the loser to pay court costs.
Q3) A diversity case involves both a state and a federal litigant.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define judicial review and note how many federal laws have been declared unconstitutional.
Q5) Carefully explain the background and the Court's ruling in Marbury v.Madison.
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Chapter 17: Domestic Policy Domestic Policy
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Q1) Which book raised public awareness about DDT?
A) The Jungle
B) RAW
C) Unsafe at Any Speed
D) Love Canal
E) Silent Spring
Q2) Welfare policies in which a relatively few number of people benefit but almost everyone pays are characterized by
A) majoritarian politics.
B) minoritarian politics.
C) client politics.
D) concurrency politics.
E) neo-institutional politics.
Q3) Environmental Impact Statements are largely innocuous and do not slow government projects down.
A)True
B)False
Q4) America has been slower than other nations to embrace the welfare state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Economic Policy Economic Policy
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Q1) Tea Party members are more likely than Republicans to support spending cuts in every category.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 focused on limiting
A) travel expenses.
B) payment on the national debt.
C) existing contracts.
D) entitlements.
E) discretionary spending.
Q3) What tools does the Fed use to implement its monetary policy?
Q4) Tax loopholes are a quintessential example of __________ politics.
A) client
B) entrepreneurial
C) interest-group
D) majoritarian
E) sociotropic
Q5) Describe the membership,tenure,and structure of the Fed.
Q6) Discuss the tools that Congress has to influence the economy.
Q7) Discuss the procedures for Congress in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
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Chapter 19: Foreign and Military Policy Foreign and Military Policy
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Q1) Alexis de Tocqueville thought that the democratic qualities of the United States would handicap its ability to conduct foreign affairs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The constitutional power to declare war and to regulate commerce with other nations is vested in
A) the State Department.
B) the Senate.
C) the president.
D) the Pentagon.
E) Congress.
Q3) What are some examples of the majoritarian component of foreign policy?
Q4) The Supreme Court ruled that Harry Truman overstepped the bounds of wartime executive power when he
A) confiscated precious metals.
B) froze prices and wages.
C) reduced imports.
D) seized steel mills.
E) reduced the number of employees in state government.
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Chapter 20: American Democracy, Then and Now
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Q1) Identify the areas that the Founders probably felt the federal government should confine its activities to.
Q2) In the 1960s numerous assistance programs were collectively referred to as
A) the War on Poverty.
B) the One for All Program.
C) Head Start.
D) No Child Left Behind.
E) the Equality Initiative.
Q3) A major development in the changing influence of the federal government was the new manner in which the Supreme Court interpreted
A) the Bill of Rights.
B) its previous rulings on checks and balances.
C) the Preamble to the Constitution.
D) Article I of the Constitution.
E) Article II of the Constitution.
Q4) The American public's growing disenchantment with the government is relatively unique among the world's democracies.
A)True
B)False
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