ap gov unit 5

A political party is

• less interested in winning elections than in particular public policy.

• a group of people who agree on everything and organize annually to win elections.

• a narrow interest group seeking advantage through elections.

• a team of men and women with similar beliefs seeking legitimate control of the government through elections.

• an organization devoted to implementing policy in the public interest.

Which is a linkage institution?

• Supreme Court

• Executive Office of the President

• Congress

• all of the above

• none of the above

Ticket-splitting is best understood as

• voting with one party for one office and another for other offices.

• voting for Democratic candidates for president and Republican candidates for Congress.

• a tactic used to commit voter fraud, which enables a voter to cast multiple ballots.

• staying with the same party in an election, voting down the partyʹs line for every race.

• voting for Republican candidates for president and Democratic candidates for Congress.

As _______, political parties serve the role of translating inputs from the public into outputs from policy makers.

• coalitions

• superdelegates

• political converters

• machines

• linkage institutions

Patronage

• is commonly used by political parties today.

• is an incentive given by national party offices.

• is the deference that elected officials give to their campaign contributors in making policy decisions.

• is based on merit and competence.

• was an inducement of jobs and financial rewards given for political reasons by party machines.

The first party system in the United States consisted of the

• Democrats and Whigs.

• Federalists and Whigs.

• Democrats and Republicans.

• Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.

• Democratic-Republicans and Whigs.

The Democratic-Republicans were also known as the

• Jeffersonians.

• Madisonians.

• Whigs.

• Federalists.

• Hamiltonians.

People gradually moving away from both parties is referred to as

• partisan drift.

• coalition politics.

• realignment.

• dealignment.

• alignment.

Which of the following statements about third parties in the United States is false

• Third parties often bring new issues to the political agenda.

• Third parties are a rare phenomena in American history.

• Third parties have brought new groups into the electorate.

• Third-party candidates almost never win office in the United States.

• Third parties have had important effects on American politics.

In a winner take all system

• coalition governments are common.

• unless a party wins, there is no reward for the votes it gets.

• if no single party gets a majority vote, a runoff election is held between the top two parties.

• legislative seats are allocated according to each partyʹs percentage of the nationwide vote.

• the party winning the majority of the votes wins all the seats up for election in the legislature.