POLI330 Week 4 Quiz Latest 2018 December

POLI330 Political Science

Week 4 Quiz

Question 1

(TCO 3) Explain which individuals have the most influence on politics via interest groups.

Women

The elderly

A wide variety of people

Rich individuals

Question 2

(TCO 3) What U.S. groups that are underrepresented by interest groups took to the street in inner-city riots in the 1960s, thus demonstrating what a group or groups might do when they cannot express their grievances through legitimate channels?

Poor people and Hispanic people

African American people and women

Poor people and African American people

Hispanic American people and women

Question 3

(TCO 3) Bureaucracies have become big and powerful, developing _____ of their own.

candidates

interests

political parties

media outlets

Question 4

(TCO 3) Some interest groups maintain a low profile by promoting their objectives without _____ them.

lobbying for

fully funding

advertising

openly debating

Question 5

(TCO 3) Large parties in particular can be analyzed as _____.

generations of like-minded voters

coalitions of interest groups

team-led organizations based around a theme

trustworthy representatives of national interest

Question 6

(TCO 3) _____ allow and even encourage parties to split.

Single-member districts

“First past the post” systems

Proportional representation systems

Plurality systems

Question 7

(TCO 3) Which of the following has recently done much to encourage state and local party organizations to cooperate with national party platforms?

Door-to-door canvassing

Cohesive national platforms

Computerized mailing lists

Local political pandering

Question 8

(TCO 3) What do you think might be a side effect of or a cause of nations with very high voter turnout having that level of turnout?

They may have a kind of political fever in which partisan politics has become too intense.

They likely play host to elections in which indistinct personalities and a relatively unified electorate bring out more voters.

They probably don’t offer automatic voter registration.

They usually have mandatory voting.

Question 9

(TCO 3) Describe the impact of education on those who vote.

Education drops the sense of participation and makes people feel more cynical, which makes people more likely to take action but not to actually follow political news.

Education lifts the sense of participation and abstract intellectual curiosity, which makes people more likely to follow individual politicians.

Education lifts the sense of political knowledge, which makes people more likely to follow political news and feel involved.

Education lifts the sense of participation and abstract intellectual curiosity, which makes people more likely to follow political news and feel involved.

Question 10

(TCO 3) Why might factory workers in small towns feel a different sense of the stakes elections hold than executives and professionals?

Factory workers in small towns may perceive a great deal of difference between candidates, noticing considerable change from one administration to another, and executives and professionals feel generally less involved but still perceive a direct correlation between who wins and their personal fortunes.

Factory workers in small towns may perceive little difference between candidates, noticing little change from one administration to another, and although executives and professionals share this sense of noticing little change from one administration to another, they still perceive a direct correlation between who wins and their personal fortunes.

Factory workers in small towns may perceive little difference between candidates, noticing little change from one administration to another, and executives and professionals feel involved and perceive a direct correlation between who wins and their personal fortunes.

Executives and professionals may perceive little difference between candidates, noticing little change from one administration to another, and factory workers in small towns feel involved and perceive a direct correlation between who wins and their personal incomes.