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Chapter 10: Participation, Voting, and Elections

True-False Quiz

True-False Quiz


This activity contains 19 questions.

	In a responsible-party government, elected officials try to pursue those policies that the voters that put them in office say they want.    True  False

	The responsible-party model cannot guarantee that the winning party will take policy positions that please the voters; it can only guarantee that the winning party's platform is less unpopular than the platform of the losing party.    True  False

	The responsible-party model does not describe exactly what happens in American elections.    True  False

	The difference between electoral competition theories and responsible-party theories is that electoral competition theories have no expectation or desire that the parties' stands will be sharply different from each other.    True  False

	Both political parties are likely to end up standing for the same policies: those favored by the most voters.    True  False

	The hallmark of electoral reward and punishment or retrospective voting theories is that voters decide how to cast their ballots based on the issue positions of the candidates.    True  False

	Neither the responsible-party model, the electoral competition model, nor the retrospective voter model provide anything close to an accurate description of elections in the United States.    True  False

	The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extended the right to vote to black males.    True  False

	Today, far fewer people participate in politics in the United States (proportionally) than did during most of the nineteenth century.    True  False

	Vietnam, Watergate, and the Iran-Contra scandal tended to encourage voter participation because people wanted to make certain that such events would not occur again.    True  False

	Despite the low voter turnout levels in the United States, Americans are actually more likely than people in other countries to participate actively in campaigns.    True  False

	Level of income and education are not related to voting turnout.    True  False

	Increasing voter participation probably would improve neither popular sovereignty nor political equality.    True  False

	An individual's race, ethnicity, religion, and gender have little if any impact on the likelihood of that person's winning the presidency.    True  False

	In virtually all recent conventions, the party nominee has been the candidate who was most popular with rank-and-file party identifiers in the nation as a whole.    True  False

	Party nominees and their policy stands are chosen partly to appeal to party elites and financial contributors, rather than to ordinary voters.    True  False

	Even if candidates who favor unpopular policies are elected on the basis of attractive personal images, democratic control of policymaking remains strong.    True  False

	Party loyalties are no longer good predictors of how people will vote.    True  False

	Electors in the electoral college are awarded to candidates based on a "proportional system" in all states but two.    True  False

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