Govt. Test 3 – Flashcards
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Which of the following is not usually considered a function of political parties?
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Lobbying
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The Republican party was formed
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as a coalition of proslavery rights.
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The original party system in the United States pitted the Federalists, supported by ______ against the Jeffersonian Republicans, supported by _______.
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merchants; agrarian interests
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The authors of the textbook argue that one of the major factors responsible for the relatively low rates of voter turnout that characterize U.S. national elections is
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the decline of political parties.
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Who was the founder of the Democratic Party?
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Andrew Jackson
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The process by which a party selects a single candidate to run for an elective office is defined as a
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nomination.
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After thirty-six years of dominating U.S. political life, the Republican Party lost power after _________ began.
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the Great Depression
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In general, which party tends to favor lower taxes and few social programs?
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Republicans
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A proportional-representation electoral system is
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a multiple-member district system that gives each political party representation in proportion to its percentage of the total vote.
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Which of the following reasons best explains the short lives of third parties?
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Their causes are usually eliminated by the ability of the major parties to absorb their programs and to draw their supporters into the mainstream.
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What was George Washington's relationship with political parties in early America?
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He thought political parties were a terrible idea.
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Which person came up with the "southern strategy" to get white southerners to start voting Republican?
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Richard Nixon
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Partisan ties in the United States have __________ in recent years.
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declined
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Which party has controlled the White House for most of the last thirty years?
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Republican
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Compared with political parties in Europe, parties in the United States have always seemed
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weak.
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Members of the House of Representatives are selected by
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single-member districts.
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In the 2000 presidential race, George Bush won Missouri 50 percent to 47 percent. How many of Missouri's eleven electoral votes did Bush get in 2000?
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11
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What was the impact of the 2002 Campaign Finance Reform law?
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It reduced the role of parties in financing campaigns.
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, election campaigns tended to be more _________ than today's campaigns.
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labor intensive
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If the winner of an election is whoever receives the most votes, regardless of the percentage of votes received, the candidate has been running under a ________ system.
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plurality
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Between the 1830s and World War II, national convention delegates were generally selected by
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state party leaders.
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The "______________ counties" were traditional Republican strongholds in the post-Civil War era.
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german
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The Texas Constitution and elections law consider the Texas primary system to be a(n) _________ primary.
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closed
