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What is major barrier to political thinking?
A. unwillingness of citizens to make the effort.
B. lack of access to governmental institutions.
C. elite control of political power resources.
D. failure of politicians and government institutions to communicate policy details to the public.
E. lack of access to news media sources outside sensationalist television or internet content.
- ✔A.
What type of government suppresses individuality, forcing people to think and act in prescribed
ways or risk punishment?
a. communistic
b. socialistic
c. authoritarian
d. egalitarian
e. republican - ✔C
In an oligarchy,
a. the state is run by corporate interests and companies instead of individuals.
b. control rests with a small group of popularly elected individuals.
,c. control rests with a single individual, such as a dictator.
d. control rests with a small group, such as military officers or a few wealthy families.
e. the state controls all aspects of individuals' lives, including family relations and the practice
of religion. - ✔C
Pluralism contends that, on most issues,
a. corporate elites have more control over economic policy than do "the politicians in the
visible government."
b. the will of the majority of the voting public determines government policy.
c. it is the preference of the special interest that largely determines what government does.
d. true authority lies with the elected politicians, and not with the public that put them in office.
e. the diverse nature of the citizenry enhances the democratic process in policymaking. - ✔C
What new policy was established by the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright
ruling?
a. the right to trial by jury
b. the need to charge an arrested suspect with a specific crime within 24 hours of
arrest c. the requirement that police read a suspect his rights before or during arrest
d. government provision of free legal counsel to the accused if they are too poor to hire a
lawyer e. the practice of allowing a suspect out on bail until the time of the trial - ✔D
Roughly two-thirds of all lobbyists in the nation's capital represent
a. activist organizations.
b. labor unions.
c. business firms.
d. foreign-based political action groups.
e. nonprofit organizations - ✔C
What is a major limit on majoritarianism suggested by the text?
,a. The public as a whole takes an interest in only a few of the hundreds of policy decisions
that U.S. officials make each year.
b. The public lacks access to the information required to take informed political action on most
issues dealt with by the government each year.
c. The actions of special interest groups are ultimately more influential than the voting power
of the public.
d. The rapid turnover of government officials and members of the legislature prevents the
majority public from making a sustained effort for any single issue.
e. The most power tends to reside with a wealthy minority of the voting public, preventing the
majority public from setting the issue agenda. - ✔A
Research suggests which of the following is primarily to blame for the increase in faulty
perceptions of news items among the public?
a. changes in the forms of communication
b. a failure of government officials to communicate truthfully
c. a growing disinterest in seeking out news items
d. the growing public gap in access to more advanced forms of media transmission, such as the
Internet
e. the increasing political polarization of elected politicians - ✔A
As described in the text, "political thinking"
a. is the reflection of an individual's ideological position when applied to political issues.
b. results from an individual allowing personal bias to inform all thoughts about political issues,
instead of doing objective learning or research to form an opinion.
c. involves the careful gathering and sifting of information in the process of forming a
knowledgeable view about a political issue.
d. is the result of an individual's attempts to seek out news media that reinforce a pre-existing
political bias.
e. is a strategy taken by those seeking election to public office in which their publicly stated
positions are designed to maximize their attractiveness to the widest voting bloc. - ✔C
Which of the following characterizes journalist Walter Lippmann's views on democracy?
, a. He felt that well-funded private interest groups and lobbyists had taken the true
majoritarian power of democracy away from the voting public.
b. He felt that modern democratic government had become an unhealthy, pluralistic enterprise.
c. He believed that among forms of government, only democracy could provide a citizen with the
ability to be a "progressive being."
d. He worried that most citizens are too uninformed to play the role democracy assigns them.
e. None of these answers is correct. - ✔D
Which of the following is a difference between communism and socialism, as described by the
text?
a. Under socialism, the government owns some firms, but under communism, the
government does not own any major assets.
b. Under communism, the government assumes total management of the economy, whereas
under socialism, the government does not try to manage the overall economy.
c. Under socialism, the economy operates mainly through private transactions, but under
communism, the government owns a number of major industries and tries to provide for
people's basic economic needs.
d. Under communism, the government manages the economy completely but does not attempt to
provide for people's basic needs; under socialism, the government does not manage the economy
completely, but does attempt to provide for people's basic needs.
e. Under socialism, the government owns more industries than a communist government,
but provides l - ✔B
The Bill of Rights added to the Constitution, among other things,
a. a guarantee of freedom of speech.
b. a division of governmental authority into three branches.
c. checks and balances among the three branches of government.
d. restrictions against the power of corporations to influence the election process.
e. term limits for elected officials to reduce their power. - ✔A
The Bill of Rights
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What is major barrier to political thinking?
A. unwillingness of citizens to make the effort.
B. lack of access to governmental institutions.
C. elite control of political power resources.
D. failure of politicians and government institutions to communicate policy details to the public.
E. lack of access to news media sources outside sensationalist television or internet content.
- ✔A.
What type of government suppresses individuality, forcing people to think and act in prescribed
ways or risk punishment?
a. communistic
b. socialistic
c. authoritarian
d. egalitarian
e. republican - ✔C
In an oligarchy,
a. the state is run by corporate interests and companies instead of individuals.
b. control rests with a small group of popularly elected individuals.
,c. control rests with a single individual, such as a dictator.
d. control rests with a small group, such as military officers or a few wealthy families.
e. the state controls all aspects of individuals' lives, including family relations and the practice
of religion. - ✔C
Pluralism contends that, on most issues,
a. corporate elites have more control over economic policy than do "the politicians in the
visible government."
b. the will of the majority of the voting public determines government policy.
c. it is the preference of the special interest that largely determines what government does.
d. true authority lies with the elected politicians, and not with the public that put them in office.
e. the diverse nature of the citizenry enhances the democratic process in policymaking. - ✔C
What new policy was established by the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Gideon v. Wainwright
ruling?
a. the right to trial by jury
b. the need to charge an arrested suspect with a specific crime within 24 hours of
arrest c. the requirement that police read a suspect his rights before or during arrest
d. government provision of free legal counsel to the accused if they are too poor to hire a
lawyer e. the practice of allowing a suspect out on bail until the time of the trial - ✔D
Roughly two-thirds of all lobbyists in the nation's capital represent
a. activist organizations.
b. labor unions.
c. business firms.
d. foreign-based political action groups.
e. nonprofit organizations - ✔C
What is a major limit on majoritarianism suggested by the text?
,a. The public as a whole takes an interest in only a few of the hundreds of policy decisions
that U.S. officials make each year.
b. The public lacks access to the information required to take informed political action on most
issues dealt with by the government each year.
c. The actions of special interest groups are ultimately more influential than the voting power
of the public.
d. The rapid turnover of government officials and members of the legislature prevents the
majority public from making a sustained effort for any single issue.
e. The most power tends to reside with a wealthy minority of the voting public, preventing the
majority public from setting the issue agenda. - ✔A
Research suggests which of the following is primarily to blame for the increase in faulty
perceptions of news items among the public?
a. changes in the forms of communication
b. a failure of government officials to communicate truthfully
c. a growing disinterest in seeking out news items
d. the growing public gap in access to more advanced forms of media transmission, such as the
Internet
e. the increasing political polarization of elected politicians - ✔A
As described in the text, "political thinking"
a. is the reflection of an individual's ideological position when applied to political issues.
b. results from an individual allowing personal bias to inform all thoughts about political issues,
instead of doing objective learning or research to form an opinion.
c. involves the careful gathering and sifting of information in the process of forming a
knowledgeable view about a political issue.
d. is the result of an individual's attempts to seek out news media that reinforce a pre-existing
political bias.
e. is a strategy taken by those seeking election to public office in which their publicly stated
positions are designed to maximize their attractiveness to the widest voting bloc. - ✔C
Which of the following characterizes journalist Walter Lippmann's views on democracy?
, a. He felt that well-funded private interest groups and lobbyists had taken the true
majoritarian power of democracy away from the voting public.
b. He felt that modern democratic government had become an unhealthy, pluralistic enterprise.
c. He believed that among forms of government, only democracy could provide a citizen with the
ability to be a "progressive being."
d. He worried that most citizens are too uninformed to play the role democracy assigns them.
e. None of these answers is correct. - ✔D
Which of the following is a difference between communism and socialism, as described by the
text?
a. Under socialism, the government owns some firms, but under communism, the
government does not own any major assets.
b. Under communism, the government assumes total management of the economy, whereas
under socialism, the government does not try to manage the overall economy.
c. Under socialism, the economy operates mainly through private transactions, but under
communism, the government owns a number of major industries and tries to provide for
people's basic economic needs.
d. Under communism, the government manages the economy completely but does not attempt to
provide for people's basic needs; under socialism, the government does not manage the economy
completely, but does attempt to provide for people's basic needs.
e. Under socialism, the government owns more industries than a communist government,
but provides l - ✔B
The Bill of Rights added to the Constitution, among other things,
a. a guarantee of freedom of speech.
b. a division of governmental authority into three branches.
c. checks and balances among the three branches of government.
d. restrictions against the power of corporations to influence the election process.
e. term limits for elected officials to reduce their power. - ✔A
The Bill of Rights
