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Political Science

Political Science. Test 3 Spring 2007. Chapter 9. Question. 1. Definition : A party’s statement of its positions on the issues of the day. party platform. Question. Definition : The programs of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The New Deal. Question.

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  1. Political Science Test 3 Spring 2007

  2. Chapter 9

  3. Question • 1.Definition: A party’s statement of its positions on the issues of the day. • party platform

  4. Question • Definition: The programs of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. • The New Deal

  5. Question • According to the text, Struggle for Democracy, political parties contribute to democracy by • making office holders accountable to voters

  6. Question • According to the authors of Struggle for Democracy, the Founders were hostile to political parties • Even though they themselves formed two distinct political parties.

  7. Question • According to the text, Struggle for Democracy, American politics is primarily what? • candidate-centered

  8. Question • Definition: The political position that holds that the federal government has a substantial role to play in the economic regulation, social welfare, and overcoming racial inequality. • liberal

  9. Question • Definition: The political position that holds that the federal government ought to play a very small role in economic regulation, social welfare, and overcoming racial inequality. • conservative

  10. Question • When did the present-day competition between the two specific parties, that is, Republicans verses Democrats, first take place? • 1856

  11. Question • What was the essence of the major shift of alliances between the two major parties since 1964? • Anti-integration Southern Democrats shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party

  12. Question • With the change of identification from party affiliation to the ideological paradigm of Liberal verses Conservative what problems arise? • The identification is largely subjective and doesn’t always accurately reflect true ideology

  13. Chapter 10

  14. Question • Definition: The proportion of eligible voters who actually vote in a given election is called what? • turnout

  15. Question 20 • Definition: The tendency to vote for the incumbents when times are good and against them when times are bad. • electoral reward and punishment

  16. Question • Definition: A form of voting in which voters look back at the performance of a party in power and cast ballots on the basis of how well it did in office. • retrospective voting

  17. Question • Definition: Political activity, including voting, campaign activity, contacting officials, and demonstrating. • participation

  18. Question • Definition: Two words that mean “The right to vote.” (Please review all options) • suffrage & franchise

  19. Question • According to both texts (Struggle for Democracy and The Lanahan Reader) and according to class lectures about what percentage of Americans vote in each presidential election? • fifty percent

  20. Question • Definition: Expenditures by political parties on general public education, voter registration, and voter mobilization is called what? • soft money

  21. Question • According to the authors of Struggle for Democracy, in democracies, the chief means by which citizens control the government is (are) supposed to be what? • elections

  22. Question • In the early years of the United States, the franchise to vote was held by what group? • property-owning white males

  23. Question • Until the presidential election of 2000 what was the position of the courts regarding elections? • Courts only influenced elections by disallowing classes of ballots, such as absentee or from a specific machine.

  24. Question • Definition: State elections in which delegates to national presidential nominating conventions are chosen. • Primary Elections

  25. Chapter 11

  26. Question • Definition: Redrawing electoral district lines to give an advantage to a particular party or candidate. • gerrymandering

  27. Question • Definition: The powers of the Congress and the federal government specifically mentioned in the Constitution. • Enumerated powers

  28. Question • What institution regulates Congress? • Congress

  29. Question • What person will become president if both the president and the vice president can no longer serve in office? • Speaker of the House of Representatives

  30. Question • Definition: Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, also called the necessary and proper clause; gives Congress the authority to make whatever laws are necessary and proper to carry out its assigned and specified responsibilities. • Elastic clause

  31. Question • Definition: The legal doctrine that a person who is arrested must have a timely hearing before a judge. • Habeas Corpus

  32. Question • Definition: According to the doctrine articulated by Edmund Burke, an elected representative who acts in perfect accord with the wishes of his or her constituents. • delegate

  33. Question • Definition: Reallocation of House seats among the states, done after each national census, to ensure that seats are held by the states in proportion to the size of their populations. • reapportionment

  34. Question • Definition: The redrawing of congressional district’s lines within a state to ensure roughly equal populations within each district. • redistricting

  35. Question • Definition: Projects designed to bring to the constituency jobs and public money for which members of Congress can claim credit. • Pork or pork barrel

  36. Chapter 12

  37. Question • The domestic economic reality of the late 19th century which led to an increase in presidential power was what? • The accumulation of wealth and power by an elite made up of industrialists

  38. Question • One of the major factors increasing the power of the office of the President was what? • America’s emergence as a world power

  39. Question • Definition: Relatively permanent congressional committees that address specific areas of legislation. • Standing committees

  40. Question • Definition: The taking of testimony by a congressional committee or subcommittee. • Hearings.

  41. Question • Definition: The process of revising a bill in committee. • markup

  42. Question • Definition: Congressional committees with members from both the House and the Senate. • Joint committees

  43. Question • Definition: A vote to end the “unlimited debate” or a standard debate; requires the votes of three-fifths of the membership of the Senate. • Cloture

  44. Question • Definition: Legislative action taken “without objection” as a way to expedite business; used to conduct much of the business of the Senate. • Unanimous consent

  45. Question • Definition: Deferral by members of Congress to the judgment of subject-matter specialists, mainly on minor technical bills. • reciprocity

  46. Question • Definition: The parliamentary device used in the Senate to prevent a bill from coming to a vote by “talking it to death,” made possible by the norm of unlimited debate. • filibuster

  47. Question • There is an obvious paradox in conservative ideology regarding presidential power. What statement describes that paradox?

  48. Answer • Conservatives oppose the power of the federal government, yet think the only legitimate power of the president is foreign relations and defense, but it has those two areas of presidential responsibility which have most increased presidential power and federal authority.

  49. Lanahan Readings

  50. Question • From the Lanahan Readings, Reading Number 16, From Congressional Government by President Woodrow Wilson– What was unique about President Wilson’s background? • He had a doctorate

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