PLSI 2 Abosch Exam 2 Study Guide Fresno State with Complete Solutions
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PLSI 2 Abosch Exam 2 Study Guide Fresno
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Bush v. Gore (2000): - Answer️️ -Without uniform, state-wide standards
to determine valid votes, a manual recount of paper ballots would violate
the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. There is not enough
time...
PLSI 2 Abosch Exam 2 Study Guide Fresno
State with Complete Solutions
Bush v. Gore (2000): - Answer✔️✔️-Without uniform, state-wide standards
to determine valid votes, a manual recount of paper ballots would violate
the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. There is not enough
time to devise and implement those standards, so the election stands as it
was originally certified: a victory for George W. Bush.
Political efficacy: - Answer✔️✔️-The sense a person has that someone in his
position can influence government.
The first televised war: - Answer✔️✔️-Vietnam
Party Membership - Answer✔️✔️-In the U.S., there is no membership fee or
restriction. You can become a member of any political party simply by
registering to vote and declaring your desired party affiliation on the
registration form.
Political parties - Answer✔️✔️-function to give cues to voters, to coordinate
policy making, to advocate policies, to pick candidates and run their
campaigns.
In contrast to political parties in Europe, - Answer✔️✔️-political parties in
the U.S. are relatively weak in terms of enforcing their will on party
members.
The election of 1800 - Answer✔️✔️-is significant as the first peaceful
transition of power.
Rational choice theory: - Answer✔️✔️-predicts that political parties try to
win elections by appealing to the largest number of voters, with the result
that the two major party candidates often seem very similar.
Turnout and voting - Answer✔️✔️-are more likely when citizens have a
strong sense of civic duty, a high feeling of political efficacy, and/or high
levels of education and wealth.
The Motor Voter Act: - Answer✔️✔️-enables people to register to vote at the
same time they fill out the form to renew their driver's license.
Primaries to choose candidates for the major parties were - Answer✔️✔️-the
product of early 20th century reformers who wanted to limit the power of
corrupt "political machines."
As the number of people granted the right to vote has increased over time,
- Answer✔️✔️-the proportion of the population actually exercising the right
to vote has decreased.
Retrospective voting: - Answer✔️✔️-the idea that voters choose a candidate
on the basis of his past performance rather than his promises for the future.
On this theory, voters ask what the candidate accomplished while in office.
Interest groups and political parties both - Answer✔️✔️-attempt to
implement policy, but unlike parties, interest groups never run their own
candidates for office.
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