TEST BANK
American Government: Political Development and
Institutional Change 12th Edition
by Cal Jillson, All Chapters 1 - 16
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Chapter 1 The Origins of American Political Principles
2. Chapter 2 The Revolution and the Constitution
3. Chapter 3 Federalism and American Political Development
4. Chapter 4 Political Socialization and Public Opinion
5. Chapter 5 The Mass Media and the Political Agenda
6. Chapter 6 Interest Groups: The Politics of Influence
7. Chapter 7 Political Parties: Winning the Right to Govern
8. Chapter 8 Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
9. Chapter 9 Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock
10. Chapter 10 The President: Executive Power in a Separation of Powers Regime
11. Chapter 11 Bureaucracy: Redesigning Government for the Twenty-First Century
12. Chapter 12 The Federal Courts: Activism versus Restraint
13. Chapter 13 Civil Liberties: Ordered Liberty in America
14. Chapter 14 Civil Rights: Where Liberty and Equality Collide
15. Chapter 15 Government, The Economy, and Domestic Policy
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
, 16. Chapter 16 America’s Global Role in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 1 The Origins of American Political Principles
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answe A B C D
r
A custom, practice, or b policy institution legal procedure rule
organization, often
embedded in rules and
law, is called a
Which
^ .^ of these terms d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
refers to the rule of an
elite few for their own
According
interests? to Plato, who a A A political The few None of these
should rule a properly philosopher- science- king wisest
constituted polis? king citizens
According to Aristotle’s d Oligarchy is a Democracy is Tyranny is any All of these
typology of governments, government a government government
which of these statements organized organized that is
accurately defines a type around a few around many oppressive to
of government? men who are men who are the people.
primarily primarily
motivated by motivated by
their narrow the broad
private and public interest.
Which one of the following c Paris
class and Berlin and Athens and Rome Oslo and
pairs of cities formed the London
interests. Madrid Copenhagen
© 2023 Taylor
centers of & Francis
, the two greatest European
societies of the ancient
world?
Before it was an empire, c It was It was a It was a republic. It was a polity.
what was ancient Rome? always an democrac
Which theorists made the a Polybius
empire. Plato
y. and St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes
first and most influential and Aristotle St. Thomas and John Locke
efforts to explain how mixed Cicero Aquinas
governments
According
can work intopractice?
the Pro & Con b The people A deep respect Slaves and All citizens were
section, which of the following met in the for the resident aliens given one vote in
was not a characteristic of Assembly to individual rights (three-fifths of the Assembly
“Athenian democracy?” discuss and and liberties of the population)
decide all city residents were
What is the temporal world? c The world
major of
issues The world of The world of
denied The otherworldly
the sacred the politically peoples and
citizenship
powerful nations and
Who wrote that, without c Niccolò John Calvin Thomas Hobbes
human history John Locke
an all- powerful monarch, Machiav
human beings will fall elli
into a war of all against
all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty,
Who was
brutish, theshort”?
and founder c Martin Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
of the Protestant Luther
Reformation?
In addition to social c King, Jr. else
Nothing There is nothing Separation Unlimited,
contract theory, what was taken. besides social of powers immoderate
are two other concepts contract theory and free constitutional
taken from classical in classical markets regimes
liberalism that liberalism.
influenced the Founding
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
generation?
American Government: Political Development and
Institutional Change 12th Edition
by Cal Jillson, All Chapters 1 - 16
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Chapter 1 The Origins of American Political Principles
2. Chapter 2 The Revolution and the Constitution
3. Chapter 3 Federalism and American Political Development
4. Chapter 4 Political Socialization and Public Opinion
5. Chapter 5 The Mass Media and the Political Agenda
6. Chapter 6 Interest Groups: The Politics of Influence
7. Chapter 7 Political Parties: Winning the Right to Govern
8. Chapter 8 Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
9. Chapter 9 Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock
10. Chapter 10 The President: Executive Power in a Separation of Powers Regime
11. Chapter 11 Bureaucracy: Redesigning Government for the Twenty-First Century
12. Chapter 12 The Federal Courts: Activism versus Restraint
13. Chapter 13 Civil Liberties: Ordered Liberty in America
14. Chapter 14 Civil Rights: Where Liberty and Equality Collide
15. Chapter 15 Government, The Economy, and Domestic Policy
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
, 16. Chapter 16 America’s Global Role in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 1 The Origins of American Political Principles
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answe A B C D
r
A custom, practice, or b policy institution legal procedure rule
organization, often
embedded in rules and
law, is called a
Which
^ .^ of these terms d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
refers to the rule of an
elite few for their own
According
interests? to Plato, who a A A political The few None of these
should rule a properly philosopher- science- king wisest
constituted polis? king citizens
According to Aristotle’s d Oligarchy is a Democracy is Tyranny is any All of these
typology of governments, government a government government
which of these statements organized organized that is
accurately defines a type around a few around many oppressive to
of government? men who are men who are the people.
primarily primarily
motivated by motivated by
their narrow the broad
private and public interest.
Which one of the following c Paris
class and Berlin and Athens and Rome Oslo and
pairs of cities formed the London
interests. Madrid Copenhagen
© 2023 Taylor
centers of & Francis
, the two greatest European
societies of the ancient
world?
Before it was an empire, c It was It was a It was a republic. It was a polity.
what was ancient Rome? always an democrac
Which theorists made the a Polybius
empire. Plato
y. and St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes
first and most influential and Aristotle St. Thomas and John Locke
efforts to explain how mixed Cicero Aquinas
governments
According
can work intopractice?
the Pro & Con b The people A deep respect Slaves and All citizens were
section, which of the following met in the for the resident aliens given one vote in
was not a characteristic of Assembly to individual rights (three-fifths of the Assembly
“Athenian democracy?” discuss and and liberties of the population)
decide all city residents were
What is the temporal world? c The world
major of
issues The world of The world of
denied The otherworldly
the sacred the politically peoples and
citizenship
powerful nations and
Who wrote that, without c Niccolò John Calvin Thomas Hobbes
human history John Locke
an all- powerful monarch, Machiav
human beings will fall elli
into a war of all against
all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty,
Who was
brutish, theshort”?
and founder c Martin Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
of the Protestant Luther
Reformation?
In addition to social c King, Jr. else
Nothing There is nothing Separation Unlimited,
contract theory, what was taken. besides social of powers immoderate
are two other concepts contract theory and free constitutional
taken from classical in classical markets regimes
liberalism that liberalism.
influenced the Founding
© 2023 Taylor & Francis
generation?
