POL Final Exam

A majority of the 31 democracies employ which kind of system for selecting members to the national legislature?

• Party-List Proportional Representation

• Two-Round Single Member Districts

• Plurality-Elected Single-Member Districts

• Single Non-Transferable Voting

What is true of the 1787 Constitution’s treatment of electoral rules?

• It provides the rules for voting and the electoral process at each level of government with great specificity

• It explains voting and the electoral process in the Bill of Rights

• It leaves the states most of the responsibility for establishing the rules for voting

• It explicitly prohibits most adult citizens from voting or participating in government

The most comprehensive or fundamental choice within democratic electoral systems is the choice between ____ and ____

• A republic, A representative democracy

• A majoritarian system, A proportional system

• A plurality system, A majority system

• Adopting term limits, leaving elected terms unlimited

Which is the larger population?

• Voting eligible population

• Voting age population

Which of the following is true of the united states

• It has the highest incarceration rate of the 31 democracies

• It is the only democracy in which ex-prisoners may be permanently disenfranchised

• It holds more frequent elections than most democracies

• Voting is done on Fridays

What is true of any democracies “electoral system”

• It’s the set of rules used to translate votes into elected office

• It is how the authority of voters is transferred to politicians, making them the agents of the voters

• It is the method by which politicians are held accountable to voters

• It employs an electoral college

Which of the following is virtually unique to the United States’ electoral system?

• The state governments are heavily involved in establishing voting rules for state office

• The state governments are heavily involved in establishing voting rules for national office

• The national government is heavily involved in establishing voting rules for state office

• The national government is heavily involved in establishing voting rules for national office

Compared to most other countries using single-member districts, which of the following is true of the United States?

• The election process of drawing district lines is more political in the US

• The number of persons per district more strictly adheres to equality in the US

• Election rules and the drawing of district lines is frequently challenged in court

• The drawing of district lines is not a political process

Who won the presidential popular vote in 2016?

• Hillary Clinton

• Mitt Romney

• Jill Stein

• Donald Trump

How many liberal democracies in 2023 (apart from US) employ an Electoral College to select their nation’s president?

• 0

• 1-5

• 6-10

• Over 10