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