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Chapter 5: Public Opinion and Political Socialization
True/False Quiz
True/False Quiz
This activity contains 16 questions.
The Tonkin Resolution forced President Johnson to seek approval from the Congress before any troops could be sent to Vietnam.
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Public opinion probably had little impact on the decision by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to de-escalate the war in Vietnam.
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James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and other founders believed that either a direct democracy or a representative democracy that followed public opinion very closely was the best type of government possible.
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Voting studies of the 1940s and 1950s showed that the public was ignorant about the most important issues of the day and relied heavily on group or party loyalties in making voting choices.
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Question wording has little effect on the results of public opinion polls.
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One consistent finding from opinion polls is that Americans do not know or care a lot about politics.
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Most people's attitudes are only loosely connected one to another and therefore do not hang together in a coherent ideological structure.
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Although the opinions of individuals sometimes fluctuate randomly, the collective public opinion of Americans stays fairly stable over time.
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As a whole, the American people have real opinions with real consequences. The fear that public opinion is capricious and fluctuates wildly is not justified.
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The number of people in America identifying themselves as independents has decreased in recent years.
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If a person is a liberal on one issue, they will be a liberal on all other issues.
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The most popular programs in the federal budget are foreign aid, foreign military sales, and funding for the space program.
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Despite what has been said in the popular press, the people of the South are still as solidly Democratic as they have always been.
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Most Americans consider themselves middle class.
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Men and women are moderately different in certain political respects.
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Overall, public opinion has a substantial impact on governmental policy.
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