Poli Sci 7,8,9,10 (8)

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A political party is best defined as

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D. a team of men and women seeking to control of the governing apparatus by gaining office in a duly constituted election.

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According to the "three-headed political giant+ model of political parties, the largest component of an american part is the

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D. party-in-the-government.

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Political parties preform all of the following tasks EXCEPT

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B. advocate public policies

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As____, political parties serve the role of translating inputs from the pubic into outputs from policymakers.

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E. linkage institutions

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American political parties tend to take middle-of-the-road- stands on major issues:

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D. because most of the american electorate is centrist

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Ticket-splitting is best understood as:

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A. voting with one party for one office and other for other offices

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Most american voters are:

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A. Liberal

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The american political parties fall for short of the responsible party model for all of the following reasons ECVEPT

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C. their presidential candidates ignore the party platform.

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In terms of organizational structure, American political parties are:

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B. decentralized and fragmented.

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Party machines in large cities relied primarily on ____ to reward friends and punish enemies

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B. patronage

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Party realignment in the United states

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E. are rare events in the United states usually associated with a major national crisis or trauma in which on party's majority domination is replaced with others.

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In closed primaries:

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c. only voters who have registered in advance with the party can vote.

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In open primaries:

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B. voters may vote for candidates from either party.

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In blanket primaries:

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D. voters may vote for multiple candidates

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The supreme power withing each of the parties is:

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D. the national convention

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The New Deal coalition was responsible for electing and reelecting

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B. Democrats

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The first party system in the united states consisted of the:

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D. Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

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The republican party began as the:

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B.principal anti-slavery party

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Party de-alignment is symbolized by

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D. the recent pattern of divided government

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Loyalty to a political party has____ over the past fourty years.

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A. increased slightly.

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Critically affecting the electoral college vote, bringing new issues to the public agenda and venting popular discontent are important roles played by

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C. The two-party system in thwarting extreme or unconventional views.

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An example of a splinter party would be:

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E. George Wallace's American Independents

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In a winner-take-all system

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E. The party winning the majority of the votes wins all the seats up for election in the legislature

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In propositional representation systems:

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D. legislative seats are allocated according to each party's percentage of the nationwide vote.

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An_____ is a partys official selection of a candidate to run for office.

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B. nomination

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Super delegates

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E. have helped restore an element of peer review to the process of choosing a presidential candidate

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In most advanced industrialized countries national campaigns:

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C. are limited by law to no more than two months.

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The specific goal of the presidential nomination game is to:

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C. win the majority of delegate votes in order to win the party nomination.

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the democratic and republican candidates for president are formally nominated by the:

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D. national party convention

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The first presidential caucus of the campaign is traditionally helpd in

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E.Iowa

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the new Hampshire primary is important because:

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D. it is the first primary.

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The rules determining the way in which the primaries are set up and the delegates are allocate are made by:

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E. state legislatures and state parties.

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Iowa and New Hampshire have been especially important in the nomination process over the past decades because they help candidates to

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D. All of the above.

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Voters in presidential primaries and caucuses tend to be

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B. older and more affluent than the united states population as a whole.

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By custom , vice-presidential nominee is chosen

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A. through a competitive wide open roll-call vote on the final day.

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The party's platform is drafted.

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B. before the convention by a committee whose members are chosen in rough proportion to each candidates strength.

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Providing select information and a request for money to lists of people who have supported candidates of similar vies on the past is a frequently used political technique known as

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C. direct mail

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the member of a presidential campaign who helps reporters make their deadlines with stories that the campaign would like to see reported is the

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A. press secretary

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The largest expenditure in a campaign budget for the presidency or a statewide office today would almost certainly be:

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b. television advertising

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the federal election campaign act:

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D. required all candidates for federal office to disclose all contributions made to their campaigns.

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The federal election commissions

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C. is a bipartisan body responsible for administering campaign finance laws and enforcing compliance with those laws.

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In the 1976 case of Buckley v. Valeo the supreme court ruled that :

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D. the limitation on the amount of money people could contribute to their own election campaigns was not a violation of free speech and was constitutional.

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Soft money is:

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E. money donated to parties rather than candidates thus not subject to contribution or spending limits.

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the hydraulic theory says that money will always find a way to get around legal obstacles........ continue to find its way into political campaigns

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C. 527 groups

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PACs are:

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C. Committees organized by interest groups to channel money to parties and candidates

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Who opposes public financing of campaigns the most?

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D. Incumbents

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which of the following have been found to be most successfully affected by campaigns

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B. Reinforcement and activation

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The selective perception of most voters means that they

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D.pay most attention to things they already agree with, and interpret events according tot heir own predispositions.