The definition of "Patronage" is:
A.) Bias or slant in the selection of which news to report and how the news is reported.
B.) Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
C.) Political Action Committees, raise money for candidates &/or parties
What is B.) Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
100
High tech mode for measuring, shaping, and exploiting public attitudes
A.) Scientific polling
B.) Single Issue Voters
C.) Surge and Decline Theory
What is A.) Scientific polling
100
The number of subjects used in an experiment or study. Generally, the larger the better.
Sample size
What is True
100
Which of the following must be reconciled in order to agree to some courts of collective action?
A. Preferences
B. Compromises
C. Institutional design
D. Politics
What is A. Preferences
100
Any state law that conflicts with federal law can be nullified under which Constitutional clause?
A. State sovereignty clause
B. Elastic clause
C. Supremacy clause
D. Commerce clause
What is C. Supremacy clause
200
The word "Prior Restraint" is defined as:
A.) parties that organize to compete against the two major American political parties
B.) Bias or slant in the selection of which news to report and how the news is reported.
C.) government censorship of information before it is published or broadcast
What is C.) government censorship of information before it is published or broadcast
200
A term used to describe people's reluctance to do much extra thinking
A.) Cognitive Miser
B.) Duverger's Law
C.) Opinion Leader
What is A.) Cognitive Miser
200
Voters identifying with their party and turning out for a candidate
Party in Electorate
What is True
200
When Speaker Paul Ryan keeps a bill off the floor for a vote, this is an example of what design principle?
A. Voting Rules
B. Delegation
C. Command
D. Agenda Control
What is D. Agenda Control
200
Congressional attempts to control the bureaucracy has resulted in:
A. Informational asymmetry
B. Reliance upon reputation theory
C. A more representative theory
D. Proliferation of red tape
What is D. Proliferation of red tape
300
parties that organize to compete against the two major American political parties
A.) Third Parties
B.) Priming
C.) PACs
What is B.) Third Parties
300
Duverger's Law means
A.) A term used to describe people's reluctance to do much extra thinking
B.) Principle that asserts single-member district elections lead to two-party systems.
C.) benefits that are available only to group members as an inducement to get them to join
What is B.) Principle that asserts single-member district elections lead to two-party systems.
300
The partisan identifications of elected leaders in local, county, state, and federal government.
Party in Electorate
What is A.) False
It should be → Party in Government
300
What collective action problem were the colonist' guilty of doing while utilizing home rule, yet still partaking gin British resources?
A. Coordination
B. Free-riding
C. Prisoner's Dilemma
D. Conformity cost
What is B. Free-riding
300
Where is congressional organization of particular improatance to ensure the policymaking remains coordinate?
A. The senate
B. The house of representatives
C. in the state parties
D. In the leadership
What is B. The house of representatives
400
Determining which public-policy questions will be debated or considered.
A.) Agenda Setting
B.) Media Bias
C.) Priming
What is A.) Agenda Setting
400
Issue with voter choice and elections is known as
A.) Single Issue Voters
B.) Surge and Decline Theory
C.) Scientific polling
What is A.) Single Issue Voters
400
The number of subjects used in an experiment or study. Generally, the larger the better.
Sample size
What is A.) True
400
The first U.S. Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, failed due to what reason?
A. Weak central institutions; strong states
B Strong central institutions; strong states
C. Weak central institutions; weak states
D. Strong central institutions; weak states
What is A. Weak central institutions; strong states
400
True or false: Members of Congress always want to keep their expected incumbent differential high.
A. True
B. False
What is A. True
500
Bias or slant in the selection of which news to report and how the news is reported
A.) Patronage
B.) Prior Restraint
C.) Media Bias
What is C.) Media Bias
500
At the beginning of the race, which is NOT a reason Dusty is on edge?
A.) Opinion Leader
B.) Selective Incentives
C.) Scientific polling
What is B.) Selective Incentives
500
to cause (events, esp in newspaper reports) to seem more vivid, shocking, etc., than they really are
Scientific polling
False
It should be → Sensationalization
500
Altering the U.S. Constitution via the amendment process purposely engages in which type of cost of collective action?
A. Transaction cost
B. Conformity cost
What is A. Transaction cost
500
Which proposed plan for the new Constitution- the Virginia or the New Jersey Plan- imposed higher conformity costs on the states?
A. Virginia Plan
B. New Jersey Plan