Government 2306 Chapter 10 – Flashcards
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Why is the creation of political parties necessary to a representative democracy?
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A. They are necessary mechanism to ensure that the individuals we choose to represent us are responsive and responsible.
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The difference between an interest group and a political part is that...
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B. a political parts seeks to enlist and nominate candidates.
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Simply stated, political parties link diverse segments of the population to government and thus contribute to the stability and ______ of government.
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C. legitimacy
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Political parties help to bridge the inherent conflict ______ branches of government.
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A. between the executive and legislative
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Since the 1970s _______ helped to bring an end to one-party politics in Texas.
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D. Social and economic changes have led to more competitive parties
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Writer V. O. Key presents a provocative thesis in Souther Politics in which he says Texas politics can be understood in terms of...
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B. modified class politics.
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What role did Governor Edmund Davis play in Texas becoming a one-party Democratic state by the 1870s?
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C. His radical republican administration during the reconstruction generated strong anti republican feelings.
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The actions of the "Shivercats", which resulted in setting a pattern where Texas voted Republican at the national level and retained its Democratic leanings at the state and local levels, were brought on by...
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D. A democratic revolt against President Truman for dismissing Texas as a recipient for sizable federal aid.
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After Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice presidents, a special election had to be called in 1961 to select a senator to fill his seat. In this special election, the final winner out of 71 candidates was...
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C. John Tower, a Republican
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In a special election in 1993, Bob Krueger was defeated by ___________. giving both senate seats to the republican part for the first time in over 100 years.
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E. Kay Bailey Hutchison
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By 2012, Texas voter identification was....
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D. 33 percent Democratic, 33 percent Republican, and the rest independent or third-party affiliated.
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The 252 commissioner's courts in Texas create the voting precincts. In 2010, there were about....
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E. 8,150 Precincts
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The permanent officials of the percent convention oversee the section of...
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A. delegates and alternates, but not resolutions, to the county convention.
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The state executive committee is composed of a total of 64 member, including a chair and vice chair...
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C. elected by a statewide vote.
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By capturing precinct conventions and advancing candidates who had little in common with mainstream party voters....
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D. the Religious Right gained control of the Republican Part in 2000.
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In presidential election years, state party conventions...
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E. Select delegates to their parties' national nominating convention, select member of their parties' national committees, and choose presidential electors.
