POLI 2051 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
LEARNING GUIDE
●● enlightened understanding
Answer: Free speech and a free press are essential to which principle of
traditional democratic theory?
●● laissez-faire
Answer: 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.
●● participation
Answer: The ways in which people get involved in politics make up
their political __________.
●● a channel through which people's concerns become part of the
political agenda
Answer: What best describes a linkage institution?
●● policy gridlock
, Answer: 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?
●● politics
Answer: What determines whom we select as our governmental leaders
and what policies these leaders pursue?
●● budgetary choice
Answer: What kind of public policy involves the legislative enactment
of taxes and expenditures?
●● the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and
other political actors
Answer: What makes up the government's policy agenda?
●● one person, one vote
Answer: What most closely exemplifies equality in voting?
●● hyperpluralism
Answer: Which theory argues that special interest groups have
essentially become sovereign, and the government is merely their
servant?
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE
LEARNING GUIDE
●● enlightened understanding
Answer: Free speech and a free press are essential to which principle of
traditional democratic theory?
●● laissez-faire
Answer: 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.
●● participation
Answer: The ways in which people get involved in politics make up
their political __________.
●● a channel through which people's concerns become part of the
political agenda
Answer: What best describes a linkage institution?
●● policy gridlock
, Answer: 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?
●● politics
Answer: What determines whom we select as our governmental leaders
and what policies these leaders pursue?
●● budgetary choice
Answer: What kind of public policy involves the legislative enactment
of taxes and expenditures?
●● the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and
other political actors
Answer: What makes up the government's policy agenda?
●● one person, one vote
Answer: What most closely exemplifies equality in voting?
●● hyperpluralism
Answer: Which theory argues that special interest groups have
essentially become sovereign, and the government is merely their
servant?
