Political Science 2311 chapter 11-13
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Elections perform all of the following EXCEPT
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decreasing political efficacy
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Since the 1960s
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Republicans and Democrats have both become more consistent with respect to their ideologies
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The invention of the radio was important for politics because
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politicians could speak directly to the public without having their ideas filtered through the media
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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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Southern Democrats, Catholic immigrants, blue-collar workers, and farmers made up
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The New Deal Coalition
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An interest group ______ is an effective leader who is likely to have organized an interest group and can effectively promote its interest.
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Entrepreneur
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Social protests are used by groups that
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are shut out of more traditional avenues of political action
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Parties help to overcome the problem of ______ created by the Constitution.
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fragmented government
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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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Political Action Committees, or PACs, are
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the fundraising arm for interest groups
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Major-party presidential nominations are now determined primarily by
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convention delegates selected in party primaries, caucuses, and state conventions
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Those who are less likely to vote tend to be
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poor rather than wealthy
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What method has increased voter registration?
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Motor Voter Bills
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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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_________ is the idealized voting behavior, but ____________ more realistically reflects how policy considerations influence voters' decisions
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Prospective voting; retrospective voting
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The 1996 Telecommunications Act
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allowed ownership of multiple broadcast stations as long as those stations did not reach more than 35 percent of the market
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Research indicates that
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the electoral process does a surprising good job of directing policy
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The biggest factor accounting for how people decide to vote is
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party identification
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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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Citizens' feeling of effectiveness in political affairs is called
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political efficacy
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News magazines like Time or Newsweek can offer more comprehensive news coverage than newspapers because they
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do not have to meet a daily deadline
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Party organizations engage in recruiting candidates
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for races they think they can win but that are not attractive to ambitious politicians
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Pluralist democracy is a theory of democracy that believes
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citizen membership in groups is the key to political power
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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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Although the Internet provides people with enormous amounts of information
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it is difficult to sort and evaluate the available information
