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Chapter 9: Political Parties
True/False Quiz
True/False Quiz
This activity contains 18 questions.
Many political scientists believe that political parties are essential to democracy.
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Competition between political parties can increase public awareness of, and interest in, candidates and issues.
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Most nations in the world have two-party systems similar to the United States.
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George Washington was a proponent of responsible party government and founded the first political party in America-- the Federalists.
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The Era of Good Feelings began when the first two-party system had evolved into a one-party or no-party system.
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The Republican party was created out of fragments of the disintegrated Whig party and anti-slavery Democrats.
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Elections organized on a "winner-take-all," single-member-district basis are more likely to result in multiparty systems than are two-party systems.
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Voters in elections with proportional representation are more likely to vote for candidates representing minor parties than are voters participating in "winner-take-all" elections.
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Once a party system is established, the dominant parties often pass laws that make it difficult for other parties to get on the ballot.
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In the United States' entire history, only a single minor party (the Republican) has managed to replace one of the major parties.
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American political parties are organized in a top-down command structure, with the national party essentially dictating what state and local party organizations can and cannot do.
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The national party conventions are the governing bodies of American political parties.
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Members of the national committees of both parties are appointed by the presidential nominee of the party at the party's national convention.
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American politics is far more candidate centered than politics in most Western European democracies.
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In many Western European democracies, the electorate tends to make its candidate choices based on feelings about the parties rather than the candidates.
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Because both the Democratic and Republican parties are broad coalitions, seeking to attract as many individuals and groups as possible in order to prevail in winner-take-all, single- member- district elections, there are strong pressures on them to be ideologically ambiguous.
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The Republican party has become much more conservative in recent years.
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Americans are less prone to identify with one of the two main parties than they were in the past.
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