POLS 1101 EXAMS 2 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET
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✔✔Form Associations - ✔✔Alexis de Tocqueville was impressed by the tendency of
Americans to:
✔✔True - ✔✔Professional lobbying firms employee former Members of Congress,
former Congressional staffers, and former executive branch staffers in order to provide
knowledge and connections to interest groups.
✔✔On K Street. - ✔✔Washington D.C. Interest Groups are predominantly located on:
✔✔Selective incentives - ✔✔Interest groups overcome the free rider problem by
providing:
✔✔19th Amendment - ✔✔Which of the following provided women with the right to vote?
✔✔Do not publish minutes of their meetings on their websites. - ✔✔Friedman and Main
(2015) found that charitable organizations:
✔✔A form of indirect lobbying that manipulates public sentiment. - ✔✔Astroturf lobbying
refers to:
✔✔Limits how political ads can use candidate names and faces. - ✔✔The BCRA:
✔✔Party in Law - ✔✔All of the following are components of the "three-part structure" of
political parties EXCEPT:
✔✔Material benefit
Personal satisfaction
Potential employment - ✔✔Individuals derive which of the following benefits from
interest group affiliation:
, ✔✔Party identification
Incumbency
Issues - ✔✔Which of the following do voters use as cues to overcome the challenges
associated with choosing whom to vote for:
✔✔Harder - ✔✔Single member districts make it ____________ for third parties to
survive in government.
✔✔False - ✔✔Robert Michels' "Iron Law of Oligarchy" argues that nonprofit
organizations operate mostly in democratic ways.
✔✔the Democrats recaptured lost political power in 1896 by embracing industrialization
- ✔✔All of the following are TRUE regarding political party realignments EXCEPT:
✔✔A pluralist view of interest groups is flawed because the upper class is
overrepresented. - ✔✔E.E. Schattschneider argued that:
✔✔The 1932 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. - ✔✔Which of the following could be
considered a realignment?
✔✔Assistant Floor Leader - ✔✔All of the following are institutional leadership positions
in Congress EXCEPT:
✔✔The election of younger Representatives and Senators.
The election of more African American Representatives and Senators.
The election of more female Representatives and Senators. - ✔✔Which of the following
would increase the demographic representation of Congress compared to the public.
✔✔thanks to it, "programmatic liberals" were ousted from several committee chairs -
✔✔All of the following statements are TRUE about the Subcommittee Bill of Rights
EXCEPT:
✔✔more people think better of Congress as a whole than of their individual
Congressmen/women - ✔✔All of the following statements regarding Congress are
TRUE EXCEPT:
✔✔Bicameralism. - ✔✔In Federalist #51, James Madison argues for:
✔✔Majority leader - ✔✔______________is the most powerful position in the Senate
✔✔Logrolling - ✔✔What helps legislation with provisions benefiting a single district
pass?
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✔✔Form Associations - ✔✔Alexis de Tocqueville was impressed by the tendency of
Americans to:
✔✔True - ✔✔Professional lobbying firms employee former Members of Congress,
former Congressional staffers, and former executive branch staffers in order to provide
knowledge and connections to interest groups.
✔✔On K Street. - ✔✔Washington D.C. Interest Groups are predominantly located on:
✔✔Selective incentives - ✔✔Interest groups overcome the free rider problem by
providing:
✔✔19th Amendment - ✔✔Which of the following provided women with the right to vote?
✔✔Do not publish minutes of their meetings on their websites. - ✔✔Friedman and Main
(2015) found that charitable organizations:
✔✔A form of indirect lobbying that manipulates public sentiment. - ✔✔Astroturf lobbying
refers to:
✔✔Limits how political ads can use candidate names and faces. - ✔✔The BCRA:
✔✔Party in Law - ✔✔All of the following are components of the "three-part structure" of
political parties EXCEPT:
✔✔Material benefit
Personal satisfaction
Potential employment - ✔✔Individuals derive which of the following benefits from
interest group affiliation:
, ✔✔Party identification
Incumbency
Issues - ✔✔Which of the following do voters use as cues to overcome the challenges
associated with choosing whom to vote for:
✔✔Harder - ✔✔Single member districts make it ____________ for third parties to
survive in government.
✔✔False - ✔✔Robert Michels' "Iron Law of Oligarchy" argues that nonprofit
organizations operate mostly in democratic ways.
✔✔the Democrats recaptured lost political power in 1896 by embracing industrialization
- ✔✔All of the following are TRUE regarding political party realignments EXCEPT:
✔✔A pluralist view of interest groups is flawed because the upper class is
overrepresented. - ✔✔E.E. Schattschneider argued that:
✔✔The 1932 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. - ✔✔Which of the following could be
considered a realignment?
✔✔Assistant Floor Leader - ✔✔All of the following are institutional leadership positions
in Congress EXCEPT:
✔✔The election of younger Representatives and Senators.
The election of more African American Representatives and Senators.
The election of more female Representatives and Senators. - ✔✔Which of the following
would increase the demographic representation of Congress compared to the public.
✔✔thanks to it, "programmatic liberals" were ousted from several committee chairs -
✔✔All of the following statements are TRUE about the Subcommittee Bill of Rights
EXCEPT:
✔✔more people think better of Congress as a whole than of their individual
Congressmen/women - ✔✔All of the following statements regarding Congress are
TRUE EXCEPT:
✔✔Bicameralism. - ✔✔In Federalist #51, James Madison argues for:
✔✔Majority leader - ✔✔______________is the most powerful position in the Senate
✔✔Logrolling - ✔✔What helps legislation with provisions benefiting a single district
pass?
