Governing States and Localities 6th Edition Smith Test Bank 1

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Chapter 5
Political Attitudes and Participation: Venting and Voting
Multiple Choice
1. Voting for all of one party’s nominees on a ticket is known as ______.

a. straight-ticket voting
b. office group voting
c. Indiana ballot voting
d. column voting
Ans: A
Answer Location: State Supervision of Elections
Learning Objective: 5-1: Describe
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Which of the following tends to decrease voter turnout?

a. competitive elections
b. higher levels of education
c. moralistic culture
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d. strict ID laws
Ans: D
Answer Location: Voting Rights Disputes
Learning Objective: 5-3: Discuss
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Which of the following positions is NOT generally elected?

a. state treasurer
b. secretary of state
c. attorney general
d. state superintendent of education
Ans: D
Answer Location: What Elections Are Used For
Learning Objective: 5-2: Identify
4. The most famous and influential modern ballot initiative dealt with which issue?
a. school funding (Proposition 27)
b. legalization of marijuana (Proposition 6)
c. property tax rates (Proposition 13)
d. term limits (Proposition 99)
Ans: C
Answer Location: Direct Democracy
5. Which of the following terms refers to the drawing of new boundaries for
congressional and state legislative districts?
a. redistricting
b. gerrymandering
c. polarization
d. apportionment
Ans: A
Answer Location: Responding to Opinion
6. Which of the following issues is the primary focus for the Tea Party movement?
a. the war in Iraq
b. the size of the federal government
c. free trade
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d. space exploration
Ans: B
7. Democratic candidates have struggled during recent ______ elections.

a. midterm
b. northern
c. presidential
d. competitive
Ans: A
Answer Location: Venting and Voting
8. The minimum Electoral College delegation is ______.

a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
Ans: C
Answer Location: Elections
9. In recent elections, voters have tended to prefer candidates who ______.

a. adhere to the party line
b. reach over the aisle
c. cross party lines to achieve compromise
d. eschew negative advertising
Ans: A
Answer Location: A Difference That Makes A Difference
10. Women received the right to vote with the ratification of the ______.
a. Voting Rights Act
b. Twenty-fourth Amendment
c. Equal Rights Amendment
d. Nineteenth Amendment
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Ans: D
Answer Location: Restricting Voters
11. In a blanket primary, the top ______ vote getters proceed to the general election,
regardless of party.
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. five
Ans: A
Answer Location: Regulating the Parties
12. Turnout runs less than 20 percent for ______ elections.

a. federal
b. presidential
c. state
d. municipal
Ans: D
Answer Location: A Voice for the Public
13. If a candidate does not win more than 50 percent of the votes but still has more
votes than any other candidate, he or she has achieved a ______.
a. runoff
b. plurality
c. paradox
d. midterm
Ans: B
14. The responsible party model is one in which ______.

a. parties run the election process
b. parties do not run negative campaign ads
c. parties offer voters clear choices
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d. parties run background checks on their candidates

Ans: C
Answer Location: Does Ideological Polarization Depress Voter Turnout?
15. In ______ states, there are more daily newspapers paying attention to policy
matters than in individualistic states.
a. traditionalistic
b. pluralistic
c. libertarian
d. moralistic
Ans: D
16. Redistricting generally follows ______.

a. a presidential election
b. a midterm election
c. the decennial census
d. the new year
Ans: C
17. Average state opinion ______ be reflected in state-level policy decisions.

a. does not tend to
b. will someday
c. does tend to be
d. will never be
Ans: C
18. Public opinion polls ______ conducted on state-level matters.

a. are often
b. are never
c. cannot be
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d. are rarely
Ans: D
19. The traditional model of public hearings is ______.

a. becoming more popular
b. nonexistent
c. becoming less popular
d. unchanged from historical norms
Ans: C
20. Who said, “Unless mass views have some place in the shaping of policy, all the talk
about democracy is nonsense”?
a. Norman Mailer
b. John F. Kennedy
c. The Marquis de Sade
d. V. O. Key
Ans: D
21. A way for voters to oust an incumbent elected official before the next election is
called a(n) ______.
a. impeachment
b. recall
c. referendum
d. censure
Ans: B
22. Term limits on government officials are nearly always imposed through ______.
a. legislation
b. court rulings
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c. ballot measures
d. federal mandates
Ans: C
23. The number of ballot initiatives has ______ since the 1970s.
a. decreased
b. increased
c. stayed the same
d. bottomed out
Ans: B
24. In ______, the legislature or other government agencies have the power of
legislative referendum.
a. most states
b. fewer than half of the states
c. no states
d. all states
Ans: D
25. The popular initiative process became popular during the ______.
a. turn of the twenty-first century
b. turn of the twentieth century
c. Revolutionary War period
d. 1960s
Ans: B
26. The Tea Party movement began in ______.

a. 1984
b. 1992
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c. 2009
d. 2013
Ans: C
27. Money spent on secretary of state elections has been ______.

a. nonexistent
b. decreasing
c. increasing
d. astronomical
Ans: C
28. When candidates do not run under a party label, the election is considered ______.
a. multiparty
b. unitarian
c. generic
d. nonpartisan
Ans: D
29. For the most part, ______ elections are nonpartisan.

a. federal
b. state
c. legislative
d. local
Ans: D
30. ______ states have higher rates of volunteering than other states.
a. Individualistic
b. Moralistic
c. Traditionalistic
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d. Red
Ans: B
Answer Location: Voter Turnout
31. One-party states rarely have ______ elections.

a. partisan
b. popular
c. competitive
d. boring
Ans: C
32. ______ voter turnout in the United States is lagging behind population growth.
a. White
b. Hispanic
c. Asian
d. Black
Ans: B
True/False
1. There is little variation across states in terms of electoral rules.

Ans: F
2. The Australian ballot lists candidates’ names, followed by their party designation,
under the title of the office they are seeking.
Ans: F
Answer Location: Regulating the Parties
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3. There are federal regulations that require all states to have the same voter
registration laws.
Ans: F
4. Historically, there have been more Republican than Democratic state attorney
general throughout the country.
Ans: F
5. Long-term demographic trends favor the Democratic Party.

Ans: T
6. The Supreme Court upheld state laws requiring that voters produce a government-
approved photo ID at the polls.
Ans: T
7. Attorneys general, treasurers, and other statewide officials often have aspirations of
becoming governor one day.
Ans: T
8. Many cases of voter fraud have been discovered in the United States.
Ans: F
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9. Traditionalistic states tend to have higher levels of social trust than do moralistic
states.
Ans: F
10. In 2000, George W. Bush won the popular vote but not the Electoral College vote.
Ans: F
Short Answer
1. What is the relationship between elections and political culture?

Ans: Answers may vary.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Briefly discuss the current state of the direct democracy process.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis
3. What have states done in the past to restrict voter access to the ballot?
4. What are the pros and cons of direct democracy?

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Political Attitudes and Participation: Venting and Voting

1. Voting for all of one party’s nominees on a ticket is known as ______.

2. Which of the following tends to decrease voter turnout?

3. Which of the following positions is NOT generally elected?

7. Democratic candidates have struggled during recent ______ elections.

8. The minimum Electoral College delegation is ______.

9. In recent elections, voters have tended to prefer candidates who ______.

12. Turnout runs less than 20 percent for ______ elections.

14. The responsible party model is one in which ______.

d. parties run background checks on their candidates

16. Redistricting generally follows ______.

17. Average state opinion ______ be reflected in state-level policy decisions.

18. Public opinion polls ______ conducted on state-level matters.

19. The traditional model of public hearings is ______.

26. The Tea Party movement began in ______.

27. Money spent on secretary of state elections has been ______.

29. For the most part, ______ elections are nonpartisan.

31. One-party states rarely have ______ elections.

1. There is little variation across states in terms of electoral rules.

5. Long-term demographic trends favor the Democratic Party.

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. What is the relationship between elections and political culture?

2. Briefly discuss the current state of the direct democracy process.

4. What are the pros and cons of direct democracy?

Difficulty Level: Hard

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