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Characteristic of the responsible party model

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It presents a coherent set of programs to voters

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The responsible party model

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Makes it easier for voters to hold parties accountable for their actions

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The party that usually gets the most votes is the party that...

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Best appeals to moderate voters

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Up until \"Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission,\" the major source of money for party fundraisers comes from?

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Political action committees

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Why would the two American parties feel the need to take more extreme issue positions?

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To satisfy the party activists and primary election voters

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Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding party machines?

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Party machines were strongest in rural areas

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Realignments are significant because they

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Usually result in a change in policy direction

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Party officials complain about the open primary because

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Members of the other party can contaminate the nomination process

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To receive the maximum number of votes and have the largest impact on an election, a third party should probably have

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A well-known leader who is very popular with a large segment of the population.

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Interest groups are formed with the common goal of

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Altering public policy by engaging in any of the above

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Political action committees, or PACS, are

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The fundraising arm for interest groups

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A common feature of all interest groups is that they

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Are organized around shared interests among members

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Many interest groups face the ____ when recruiting members who can gain the benefits of their activities whether or not they join

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Free rider problem

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Interest groups often provide selective incentives, which are

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Benefits available only to group members

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Selective incentives are necessary for some interest groups because

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Collective benefits cannot be kept from those who do not join the group.

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The \"revolving door\" exists because

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Some of the most effective lobbyists are former government officials

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AstroTurf lobbying refers to

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Organizing and lobbying efforts that manipulate or create the illusion of grass roots public sentiment

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The ____ role of interest groups is reflected in MADD's attempts to increase public awareness of problems related to drunk driving and to direct legislative attention to the issue.

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Agenda-building

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Directly lobbying the Supreme Court is against the law. The one way an interest group can, however, influence the judiciary is to

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Challenge the legality of laws or administrative regulations by filing suit or filing amicus briefs in courts

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Citizens' feelings of effectiveness in political affairs is called

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Political efficacy

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Which of the following statements does NOT reflect a key change in attitude within the American electorate that has likely led to decreased voter turnout?

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Political efficacy has increased significantly in recent decades.

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In the 2008 presidential elections, voter turnout reversed the trend by

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Rising

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Some of the overall decline in voter turnout is likely due to

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Declining citizen involvement in community groups (the \"all politics is local\" factor)

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A party's effort to inform potential voters and persuade them to vote for that party is known as

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voter mobilization

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____ voting occurs when people use their judgment or the current political situation along with the past performance or the incumbents

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Retrospective

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A party caucus is a meeting of

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Local party members who choose delegates for the national convention

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Front-loading is the process of

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Scheduling presidential primaries earlier in the primary season

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The Constitution dictates that each state has

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One elector for each senator and representative.

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Faithless electors are electors who

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Vote their conscience rather than for the candidate they were pledged to support in the electoral college

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All of the following statements concerning the Electoral College are true EXCEPT

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•*the rules of the Electoral College give all the states equal importance in presidential elections. •critics argue that the Electoral College is undemocratic •critics argue that a close election could be decided by a few faithless electors. •it distorts candidates' campaign strategies •all the proposed alternatives have problems or at least serious criticisms.

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The founders created the Electoral College and specified that senators would be chosen by the state legislature because

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They feared that the people would easily be mislead or would to fight for their own interests rather make choices based on the public good.

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Because of the Electoral College, presidential candidates generally spend most of their time and resources in

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Competitive states, especially large ones.

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Who may collect government matching funds during the general election?

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Major-party candidates and third-party candidates whose party received at least 5 percent of the vote in the previous presidential election.

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Negative advertising

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Registers more quickly and is remembered longer than information from positive advertisements.

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Infotainment refers to

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\"News\" shows dressed up with drama and entertainment to entice viewers to tune in.

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The advent of cable and satellite television providers has had all of the following effects EXCEPT

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•**increasing the quality of new available to viewers** •increasing dramatically the number of channels available to viewers •creating fierce competition for viewers •encouraging broadcasters to focus on narrow audiences •it has led to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment

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While the web provides people with enormous amounts of information

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It is difficult to sort and evaluate the available information

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One of the problem in selecting the internet as an alternative to the mainstream corporate media is that

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It takes time and effort to find out which sources are accurate and trustworthy

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The drive to attract customers to newspapers in the 1800s led publishers to print papers that were all or the following EXCEPT

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•*less dependent on advertising* •more sensational •more superficial •cheaper

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Yellow journalism refers to

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The effort to lure audiences by reporting on sensational topics

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The tendency of the media to make coverage and programming decisions based on what will attract a large audience and maximize profits is known as

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Commercial bias

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The impact of the deregulation of broadcast journalism by the 1996 Telecommunications Act has been to

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Increase media monopolies

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The corporate nature of the American media has caused

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Advertisers to dictate the content of the news

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The most basic consequence of the concentrated corporate ownership of the news is

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Commercial bias

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An investigative reporter who searches for and exposes misconduct in corporate activity or public officials is called a

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Muckraker

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Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning pundits

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•**They usually have high levels of expertise and professionalism ** •many of them come through the revolving door from gov •their numbers have risen dramatically with the need to fill expanding air time •they have considerable unchecked power •they have become media celebrities

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The tendency of public officials, journalists, and lobbyists to move between public and private sector jobs is known as

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The revolving door

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Because television is an entertainment medium, it's coverage of political events focuses on

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Image

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Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning use of the media to gather information about the news

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•**Americans have become well informed about their political world •it takes great time and effort to critically analyze the information available through the media •a vast quantity of information is available •newspaper circulation is on a long-term decline •Americans have rapidly moved to extensive use of television and the internet

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One significant impact of the rise of the political pundit is that

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People hear less from the politicians themselves and more from people commenting on what the politicians are doing.

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