AMERICAN DEMOCRACY NOW
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS
●● candidate-centered campaign
Answer: A campaign in which the individual seeking election, rather
than an entire party slate, is the focus.
●● dealignment
Answer: The situation in which fewer voters support the two major
political parties, instead identifying themselves as independent, or
splitting their ticket between candidates from more than one party
●● divided government
Answer: The situation that exists when Congress is controlled by one
party and the presidency by the other.
●● independent
Answer: Often used as a synonym for unaffiliated voter
●● loyal opposition
Answer: A role that the party out of power plays, highlighting its
objections to policies and priorities of the government in power.
, ●● New Deal
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt's broad social welfare program in which the
government would bear the responsibility of providing a "safety net" to
protect the weakest members of society.
●● New Deal coalition
Answer: The group composed of southern Democrats, northern city
dwellers, immigrants, the poor, Catholics, labor union members, blue-
collar workers, African Americans, and women that elected FDR to the
presidency four times.
●● party identifiers
Answer: Individuals who identify themselves as a member of one party
or the other
●● party in government
Answer: The partisan identifications of elected leaders in local, county,
state, and federal government.
●● party in the electorate
Answer: Individuals who identify with or tend to support a party.
●● party organization
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS
●● candidate-centered campaign
Answer: A campaign in which the individual seeking election, rather
than an entire party slate, is the focus.
●● dealignment
Answer: The situation in which fewer voters support the two major
political parties, instead identifying themselves as independent, or
splitting their ticket between candidates from more than one party
●● divided government
Answer: The situation that exists when Congress is controlled by one
party and the presidency by the other.
●● independent
Answer: Often used as a synonym for unaffiliated voter
●● loyal opposition
Answer: A role that the party out of power plays, highlighting its
objections to policies and priorities of the government in power.
, ●● New Deal
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt's broad social welfare program in which the
government would bear the responsibility of providing a "safety net" to
protect the weakest members of society.
●● New Deal coalition
Answer: The group composed of southern Democrats, northern city
dwellers, immigrants, the poor, Catholics, labor union members, blue-
collar workers, African Americans, and women that elected FDR to the
presidency four times.
●● party identifiers
Answer: Individuals who identify themselves as a member of one party
or the other
●● party in government
Answer: The partisan identifications of elected leaders in local, county,
state, and federal government.
●● party in the electorate
Answer: Individuals who identify with or tend to support a party.
●● party organization
