POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo Salas

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POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo
Salas

• Part 4
• Assignment 22

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Notice

• Dear students
• The odd-numbered questions are answered for
  you. The answers to the even-numbered questions
  are the result of your readings. This is to
  assure that you are understanding the material.
  Good luck!

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Assignment 22
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Conventional Forms of Participation Other Than
Voting

• T or F Questions (5)
• Multiple Choice questions (10)

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True or False Questions

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True or False

• 1/5
• Campaign participation is higher in the United
  States than in Europe.

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Answer

• 1/5
• True

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True or False

• 2/5
• Americans are less likely than citizens
  elsewhere to contribute money to lobbying groups.

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Answer

• 2/5

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True or False

• 3/5
• Under most conditions, the majority of
  Americans expect to solve their own problems, and
  therefore, have a disdain for collective action.

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Answer

• 3/5
• False

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True or False

• 4/5
• Americans prefer that benefits be distributed
  primarily through the policies of the government
  rather than the economic marketplace, according
  to Robert Lane.

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Answer

• 4/5

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True or False

• 5/5
• There is far greater political participation
  by poor people in the United States than the poor
  of other Western democracies.

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Answer

• 5/5
• False

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Multiple Choice Questions

• The following questions are multiple choices.
  Select the most appropriate answer.

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1/10

• Why are Americans more likely than Europeans
  to work in a campaign?
• a) Because Americans have more opportunities
  to do
• so
• b) Elections take place more often in Europe
  than the
• United States
• c) Europeans place greater restrictions on
  their voters
• limiting their participation to just
  voting
• d) In Europe it is the local boss that
  decides who votes
• and who doesn't.

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Answer

• 1/10
• a

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2/10

• Most of the governments in Europe are
• a) federal b)
  confederation
• c) presidential d)
  unitary

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Answer

• 2/10

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3/10

• The sum of the face-to-face civic
• interactions among citizens in a society
• a) solidary interaction
• b) social capital
• c) group identification
• d) nationalism.

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Answer

• 3/10
• b

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4/10

• Quoting Robert Putnam, he argues that
• there has been a broad and continuing
• erosion of civic engagement in the U.S. that
• is the result of
• a) increasing class distinctions
• b) television and other factors
• c) decreases in the crime rate
• d) apathy to political engagement.

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Answer

• 4/10

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5/10

• The following claims to have two million
• online activists, many of them young people
• a) MoveOn b) NRA
• c) Slate d)
  CommonCause

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Answer

• 5/10
• a

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6/10

• The following refers to broad efforts to
  achieve change by citizens who feel that
  government is not properly responsive to their
  interests
• a) social interaction
• b) political movements
• c) public accountability
• d) political impact.

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Answer

• 6/10

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7/10

• The passage of the landmark 1964 Civil
• Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
• can be attributed primarily to the following
• catalyst
• a) just a response by Congress
• b) President Lyndon Johnson concerns
• c) the civil rights movement
• d) Television.

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Answer

• 7/10
• c

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8/10

• Roughly, how many Americans go to the polls
  and vote in presidential elections?
• a) a little less than 50 million
• b) about 75 million
• c) more 100 million
• d) more than 145 million

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Answer

• 8/10

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9/10

• About how many Americans today do not have
  adequate health insurance because of their
  inability to pay?
• a) 25 million b) 45
  million
• c) 55 million d) 73
  million.

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Answer

• 9/10
• b

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10/10

• Why did a sizeable majority of the middle and
  upper income groups quit supporting the Clinton
  universal health care proposal in 1993-1994?
• a) Because they believed that the poor were
• responsible for their economic plight
• b) Because of the internal corruption within
  the Clinton
• administration
• c) Because Clinton was a poor communicator
• d) Because these groups came to believe that
  their own
• care would suffer qualitatively.

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Answer

• 10/10

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The End