Government 2035 Quiz 1 – Flashcards
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The citizens of which of the following countries pay the lowest tax rates?
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the United States
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The United States had certain rules in place to keep politics within peaceful bounds. These rules include all of the following EXCEPT
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autocracy
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West Virginia, the state with the lowest percentage of collage graduates in the United States,
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has a higher proportion of collage graduates than most European countries
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A government's authority
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is evidenced when government officials use their right to exercise power
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_____is the ability of persons, groups, or institutions to influence political developments
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Power
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Sociologist C. Wright Mills was a proponent of the theory of
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elitism
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What is the major barrier to political thinking
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unwillingness of citizens to make the effort
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In a democratic society, who or what is responsible to personal development?
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the individual
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In an oligarchy
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control rest with a small group, such as military officers or a few wealthy families
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Pluralism contends that, on most issues
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it is the preference of the special interest that largely determines what government does
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What new policy was established by the W.S. Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v Wainwright ruling?
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government provision of free legal counsel to the accused if they are too poor to hire a lawyer.
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Roughly two-thirds of all lobbyists in the nation's capital represent
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business firms
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Which of the following is an accurate description of the prevalence of college education in the United States
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among adults twenty-five years of age and older, roughly one in four is a college graduate
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As described by the authors, "political thinking"
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involves the careful gathering and sifting of information in the process of forming a knowledgeable view about a political issue.
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The average income of minimum-wage workers n the US and Europe reflect a greater influence of which of the following in the US, when compared to Europe
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corporate power
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Which of the following is a difference between communism and socialism, as described by the text?
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under communism, the government assumes total management of the economy, whereas under socialism, the government does not try to manage the overall economy
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In which of the following ways in the US free-market system distinct from the European economies?
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the extent to which private transactions determine the allocation of economic costs and benefits
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Europeans have a greater acceptance than Americans of
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the majoritarian system of government
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The Bill of Rights
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further checked the power of the majority
