POLI EXAM 1 HOGAN UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. A law passed by Congress and the adoption of a regulation by an agency are examples of which of the
following?
Answer:
public policies
Question:
2. Free speech and a free press are essential to which principle of traditional democratic theory?
Answer:
enlightened understanding
Question:
3. 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
Question:
4. The ways in which people get involved in politics make up their political __________.
Answer:
participation
Question:
5. What best describes a linkage institution?
Answer:
a channel through which people's concerns become part of the political agenda Feedback
Question:
6. 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
Question:
7. What determines whom we select as our governmental leaders and what policies these leaders pursue?
Answer:
politics
Question:
8. What kind of public policy involves the legislative enactment of taxes and expenditures?
Answer:
budgetary choice
, Question:
9. What makes up the government's policy agenda?
Answer:
. the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other political actors
Question:
10. What most closely exemplifies equality in voting?
Answer:
one person, one vote
Question:
11. Which theory argues that special interest groups have essentially become sovereign, and the
government is merely their servant?
Answer:
hyperpluralism
Question:
12. Who is at the center of all theories of elitism?
Answer:
big business
Question:
13. In Federalist 10, who wrote, "The most common and durable source of factions has been the various
and unequal distribution of property"?
Answer:
James Madison
Question:
14. John Locke's belief that government derives its authority from the people influenced the Declaration of
Independence, which says, "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from
_______________.
Answer:
the consent of the governed
Question:
15. The Articles of Confederation required __________ consent from the states for ratification.
Answer:
unanimous
Question:
16. The meaning of the Constitution can change through __________.
Answer:
judicial interpretation
Question:
17. What did the Connecticut Compromise help to establish?
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. A law passed by Congress and the adoption of a regulation by an agency are examples of which of the
following?
Answer:
public policies
Question:
2. Free speech and a free press are essential to which principle of traditional democratic theory?
Answer:
enlightened understanding
Question:
3. 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
Question:
4. The ways in which people get involved in politics make up their political __________.
Answer:
participation
Question:
5. What best describes a linkage institution?
Answer:
a channel through which people's concerns become part of the political agenda Feedback
Question:
6. 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
Question:
7. What determines whom we select as our governmental leaders and what policies these leaders pursue?
Answer:
politics
Question:
8. What kind of public policy involves the legislative enactment of taxes and expenditures?
Answer:
budgetary choice
, Question:
9. What makes up the government's policy agenda?
Answer:
. the issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other political actors
Question:
10. What most closely exemplifies equality in voting?
Answer:
one person, one vote
Question:
11. Which theory argues that special interest groups have essentially become sovereign, and the
government is merely their servant?
Answer:
hyperpluralism
Question:
12. Who is at the center of all theories of elitism?
Answer:
big business
Question:
13. In Federalist 10, who wrote, "The most common and durable source of factions has been the various
and unequal distribution of property"?
Answer:
James Madison
Question:
14. John Locke's belief that government derives its authority from the people influenced the Declaration of
Independence, which says, "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from
_______________.
Answer:
the consent of the governed
Question:
15. The Articles of Confederation required __________ consent from the states for ratification.
Answer:
unanimous
Question:
16. The meaning of the Constitution can change through __________.
Answer:
judicial interpretation
Question:
17. What did the Connecticut Compromise help to establish?
