Spring 2009 Review for Test 3

Objective Questions (80 points). Multiple choice and true/false. You are responsible for all the material in the chapters, but you would be wise to focus most of your study on the key terms and phrases at the end of each chapter. I will reproduce them for you below. Wow! Now that I produced them all, I see that you should have learned a lot!

1. interest groups 

2. Alexis de Tocqueville

3. public goods and private goods

4. free rider problem

5. union shop

6. right-to-work laws

7. benefits for group membership: solidarity, material, and information

8. “Federalist Number 10”

9. faction

10. democratic pluralism

11. lobbying and lobbyists

12. legislative lobbying

13. bureaucratic lobbying

14. The Federal Register

15. judicial lobbying

16. in-house lobbyists and contract lobbyists

17. revolving door problem

18. Political Action Committees or PACs

19. grassroots lobbying

20. institutional advertising

21. think tanks

22. social capital

23. long ballot

24. political party

25. party caucus

26. Progressives

27. nonpartisan elections

28. initiative

29. recall

30. Federalists

31. Jeffersonians and Democratic-Republicans

32. Whigs

33. Republican Party

34. Populist Party

35. New Deal realignment

36. Blue states, Red states, and Purple states

37. three parts of political parties: party organization, party in government, and party in the electorate

38. party identification

39. party leaners

40. plurality winner-take-all election rules

41. proportional representation

42. two types of third parties: splinter protest third parties and ideological third parties

43. Southern Strategy

44. voter fatigue

45. voter turnout

46. open and closed primaries

47. Electoral College

48. "nature of the times" voters

49. policy mandate

50. multilateralism

51. unilateralism and preemption in foreign/defense policy

52. (voting as a) civic ritual  

53. survey population

54. random sample

55. 1936 Literary Digest survey

56. straw polls

57. sampling error

58. exit poll

59. socially desirable answers

60. push poll

61. door-step opinions

62. Office of Inspector General

63. mandatory and discretionary spending

64. national debt and budget deficit (difference between)

65. political socialization

66. agents of political socialization

67. political efficacy

68. News media

69. penny press

70. yellow journalism

71. muckraking

72. the 1960 televised debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy

73. narrowcasting

74. infotainment

75. docudramas

76. horse-race stories

77. how we avoid being manilulated by the media: selective exposure and selective perception

78. structural bias

79. newsworthy

80. sociocentric bias

81. agenda setting

82. framing

83. media coverage of global warming

84. balanced coverage

85. isolationism

86. Manifest Destiny

87. The Monroe Doctrine

88. The “America First” movement

89. rally-round-the-flag effect

90. power to declare war

91. the Cold War

92. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

93. containment

94. Marshall Plan

95. Massive Retaliation

96. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

97. nuclear proliferation

Essay Questions (20 points). Choose one of the following (we will narrow it down to two in class) 

1. How did “Federalist Number 10” describe the nature of factions, the problems created by factions, the sources that create factions, and the best way to deal with factions?

2. Suppose you best friend tells you that political parties should all be banned and that all they do is make things worse in our nation. Respond to her statement with a counterargument about the value and roles of parties in our democratic republic.

3. Discuss your own political socialization in terms of how it does and/or does not fit what political scientists know about how citizens are socialized. Make sure you cover all the major agents of political socialization.