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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.    True  False

	Competition between political parties can increase public awareness of, and interest in, candidates and issues.    True  False

	Most nations in the world have two-party systems similar to the United States.    True  False

	George Washington was a proponent of responsible party government and founded the first political party in America-- the Federalists.    True  False

	The Era of Good Feelings began when the first two-party system had evolved into a one-party or no-party system.    True  False

	The Republican party was created out of fragments of the disintegrated Whig party and anti-slavery Democrats.    True  False

	Elections organized on a "winner-take-all," single-member-district basis are more likely to result in multiparty systems than are two-party systems.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	Once a party system is established, the dominant parties often pass laws that make it difficult for other parties to get on the ballot.    True  False

	In the United States' entire history, only a single minor party (the Republican) has managed to replace one of the major parties.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	The national party conventions are the governing bodies of American political parties.    True  False

	Members of the national committees of both parties are appointed by the presidential nominee of the party at the party's national convention.    True  False

	American politics is far more candidate centered than politics in most Western European democracies.    True  False

	In many Western European democracies, the electorate tends to make its candidate choices based on feelings about the parties rather than the candidates.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	The Republican party has become much more conservative in recent years.    True  False

	Americans are less prone to identify with one of the two main parties than they were in the past.    True  False

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