POLI 2051 STUDY GUIDE TEST QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS SUCCESS
RESOURCE
●● Free speech and a free press are essential to which principle of
traditional democratic theory?
Select one:
a. inclusion
b. effective participation
c. enlightened understanding
d. equality in voting
Answer: c. enlightened understanding
●● The U.S. preference for __________ economic policies helps to
explain why we have a smaller and more limited government than do
most other advanced industrialized countries.
Select one:
a. laissez-faire
b. populist
c. pluralist
d. egalitarian
Answer: a. laissez-faire
,●● The ways in which people get involved in politics make up their
political __________.
Select one:
a. ideals
b. participation
c. party
d. opinions
Answer: b. participation
●● What best describes a linkage institution?
Select one:
a. a location to express a political opinion
b. the formation of a special interest group
c. an environment where one learns about the political process
d. a channel through which people's concerns become part of the
political agenda
Answer: d. a channel through which people's concerns become part of
the political agenda
●● What condition occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is
strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, yet each may be
strong enough to thwart the will of the others?
,Select one:
a. divided government
b. hyperpluralism
c. policy gridlock
d. separation of powers
Answer: c. policy gridlock
●● What determines whom we select as our governmental leaders and
what policies these leaders pursue?
Select one:
a. the media
b. public opinion
c. politics
d. public policy
Answer: c. politics
●● What kind of public policy involves the legislative enactment of
taxes and expenditures?
Select one:
a. budgetary choice
b. regulation
c. court decision
d. presidential action
, Answer: a. budgetary choice
●● What makes up the government's policy agenda?
Select one:
a. all of the issues that candidates talk about on the campaign trail
b. the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other
political actors
c. the issues that are asked about on public opinion polls
d. the issues that concern single-issue interest groups
Answer: b. the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials
and other political actors
●● What most closely exemplifies equality in voting?
Select one:
a. adequate and equal resources for expressing preferences
b. freedom of speech and of the press
c. one person, one vote
d. universal citizenship
Answer: c. one person, one vote
●● Which theory argues that special interest groups have essentially
become sovereign, and the government is merely their servant?
Select one:
AND CORRECT ANSWERS SUCCESS
RESOURCE
●● Free speech and a free press are essential to which principle of
traditional democratic theory?
Select one:
a. inclusion
b. effective participation
c. enlightened understanding
d. equality in voting
Answer: c. enlightened understanding
●● The U.S. preference for __________ economic policies helps to
explain why we have a smaller and more limited government than do
most other advanced industrialized countries.
Select one:
a. laissez-faire
b. populist
c. pluralist
d. egalitarian
Answer: a. laissez-faire
,●● The ways in which people get involved in politics make up their
political __________.
Select one:
a. ideals
b. participation
c. party
d. opinions
Answer: b. participation
●● What best describes a linkage institution?
Select one:
a. a location to express a political opinion
b. the formation of a special interest group
c. an environment where one learns about the political process
d. a channel through which people's concerns become part of the
political agenda
Answer: d. a channel through which people's concerns become part of
the political agenda
●● What condition occurs when interests conflict and no coalition is
strong enough to form a majority and establish policy, yet each may be
strong enough to thwart the will of the others?
,Select one:
a. divided government
b. hyperpluralism
c. policy gridlock
d. separation of powers
Answer: c. policy gridlock
●● What determines whom we select as our governmental leaders and
what policies these leaders pursue?
Select one:
a. the media
b. public opinion
c. politics
d. public policy
Answer: c. politics
●● What kind of public policy involves the legislative enactment of
taxes and expenditures?
Select one:
a. budgetary choice
b. regulation
c. court decision
d. presidential action
, Answer: a. budgetary choice
●● What makes up the government's policy agenda?
Select one:
a. all of the issues that candidates talk about on the campaign trail
b. the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other
political actors
c. the issues that are asked about on public opinion polls
d. the issues that concern single-issue interest groups
Answer: b. the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials
and other political actors
●● What most closely exemplifies equality in voting?
Select one:
a. adequate and equal resources for expressing preferences
b. freedom of speech and of the press
c. one person, one vote
d. universal citizenship
Answer: c. one person, one vote
●● Which theory argues that special interest groups have essentially
become sovereign, and the government is merely their servant?
Select one:
