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PSCI 2305 - Midterm Exam Questions and Answers
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PSCI 2305 - Midterm Exam Questionsand Answers
False - Answer -Conservatives favor equality more than freedom, and freedom more
than order.
False - Answer -Formula grants are categorical grants awarded on the basis of
competitive applications submitted by prospective recipients to perform a specific task
or function.
True - Answer -States' rights are spelled out in the 10th Amendment to the Bill of Rights.
Moreover, states' rights further stipulate that all rights not specifically conferred on the
national government by the U.S. Constitution are reserved to the states.
True - Answer -Oligarchy is a system of government in which power is concentrated in
the hands of a few people.
False - Answer -Political ideology and political participation are one and the same
concept, that is, both are similarly defined.
True - Answer -Madison's admonition in Federalist No. 10 warned against factions (i.e.,
special interest groups), who frequently are at odds with each other, and frequently
work against the public interest, and infringe upon the rights of others.
True - Answer -Laissez faire is an economic doctrine that opposes any form of
government intervention in business.
False - Answer -Representative democracy (ie., public officials are elected through
indirect democracy process) is a system of government where rank-and-file citizens rule
themselves.
False - Answer -Totalitarianism is a political philosophy that never advocates unlimited
power for the government to enable it to control all sectors of society.
False - Answer -The pluralist model of democracy is the classical theory of democracy
in which government by the people is interpreted as government by the majority of the
people.
, True - Answer -The purpose of Federalist No. 51 was to inform the reader of the
safeguards created by the convention to maintain the separate brunches of
government, and to protect the rights of the people and of the country.
True - Answer -Voting is a form of conventional participation in the political process.
True - Answer -James Madison was/is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
False - Answer -The media's least important effect on public opinion is in setting the
country's political agenda.
True - Answer -Harold Lasswell defined politics as, "Who gets what, when and how?"
False - Answer -Government is the illegitimate use of force to control human behavior.
False - Answer -People of higher socioeconomic status are less likely to contact public
officials.
True - Answer -The states remain duty-bound under the Constitution's supremacy
clause (Article VI) to bow to national authority.
True - Answer -Public opinion is more important to the majoritarian model of democracy
than the pluralist model.
True - Answer -There are many challenges to ensuring that polls are generalizable.
True - Answer -If there is a stable distribution over time, this is an indication of how
settled people are in their opinion.
False - Answer -Communitarians favor freedom more than equality, and equality more
than order.
True - Answer -Libertarians favor freedom more than equality and order.
False - Answer -The three branches of government are the federal, state, and local
levels of government.
False - Answer -The federal government appears to support dual federalism in the
social services policy area, and seems to support cooperative federalism on the issue of
immigration enforcement.
True - Answer -The media can promote the democratic value of equality, drawing
national attention to disadvantaged groups that lack other political resources. They can
also disrupt order spreading information about events that challenge the status quo.
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