PSCI 210 Final Test Questions with Correct Answers
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PSCI 210 Final Test Questions with Correct Answers
Party Unity Voting - Answer-Votes in congress in which a majority of the members of one party vote on one side of an issue and the majority of members of the other party vote on the other side.
How parties got weaker - Answer-They're weakened...
PSCI 210 Final Test Questions with
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Party Unity Voting - Answer-Votes in congress in which a majority of the members of
one party vote on one side of an issue and the majority of members of the other party
vote on the other side.
How parties got weaker - Answer-They're weakened by state and federal laws.
Federalism is a main reason. Separated powers of branches weaken parties.
How parties got stronger - Answer-Political factions or parties began to form during the
struggle over ratification of the federal Constitution of 1787. Friction between them
increased as attention shifted from the creation of a new federal government to the
question of how powerful that federal government would be.
Issue Advocacy - Answer-Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest
groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering
for or against a candidate, and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Campaign Finance Reform - Answer-Legislation aimed at placing limits on political
candidates accepting money and gifts from individuals and special interest groups
Closed primary - Answer-A primary in which only registered members of a particular
political party can vote
Open Primary - Answer-A primary election in which voters may choose in which party to
vote as they enter the polling place
Third Parties - Answer-parties that organize to compete against the two major American
political parties
Parties in Electorate - Answer-The party-in-the-electorate are those members of the
voting public who consider themselves to be part of a political party and/or who
consistently prefer the candidates of one party over the other.
parties in government - Answer-The group of officeholders who belong to a specific
political party and were elected as candidates of that party.
Parties in Organization - Answer--contest elections and organize -National Organization
-state central committees -Local party organizations
, divided government - Answer-one party controls the White House and another party
controls one or both houses of Congress
unified government - Answer-the same party controls the White House and both houses
of Congress
Wasted Vote Problem - Answer-a wasted vote is any vote which is not for an elected
candidate or, more broadly, a vote that does not help to elect a candidate.
Responsible Parties - Answer-parties that take responsibility for offering the electorate a
distinct range of policies and programs, thus providing a clear choice
Party Machines - Answer-A type of political party organization that relies heavily on
material inducements, such as patronage, to win votes and to govern.
Pendleton Civil Service Act - Answer-Passed in 1883, an Act that created a federal civil
service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Proportional Representation - Answer-An election system in which each party running
receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Plurality Elections - Answer-elections in which the candidate with the most votes, not
necessarily a majority, wins
Progressive Political Reforms - Answer-16 Amendment: Income taxes
17 Amendment: Direct election of Senators
18 Amendment: Prohibition
Muller v. Oregon: special work protections for women
Tea Party - Answer-A national social movement, primarily attracting fiscal and social
conservatives, that seeks to limit government spending and cut taxes
Truman's arguments for factions - Answer-MAIN ARGUMENT: the competition among
groups in society for political power produces the best approximation of the overall
public good- argues that interest groups are a powerful and inevitable feature of
American politics-people have multiple and overlapping membership in different groups-
there is balance to the views any one member brings to the organization and ultimately
to the political process-the potential for a group to form is always possible which gives
the group power in and of itself"What we seek are correctives, protections, or controls
that will strengthen the practices essential in what we call a democracy and that will
weaken or eliminate those that really threaten that system.""'A number of citizens,
whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated
by some common impulse of passion, or of interest...'"
Framing - Answer-the power of the media to influence how events and issues are
interpreted
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