GOVT 2305 EXAM 2 COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
●● The free-rider problem increases the difficulty of attracting _______.
Answer: Paying members
●● During a presidential election, the tendency of journalists to limit
coverage of campaigns to coverage of which candidate is leading or
behind in the polls at the time, rather than chiefly covering the issue, is
known as...
Answer: Horse race journalism
●● In 2012 and 2013, voters approved a number of ballot propositions,
including ones in Colorado and Washington that...
Answer: Legalized marijuana
●● In 2012, an income below _______ would place a family of four
below the official U.S. poverty threshold.
Answer: $23,492
●● Laissez-Faire thought today is often compared as similar to...
Answer: Friedrich Hayek and the "Austrian School" for economics
,●● Suppose a state decides to reduce tax credits for low-income in order
to finance tax cuts for businesses and corporations; this would be an
example of a...
Answer: Distributional policy
●● A 2006 survey found that if the government feels information
threatens national security, _________ Americans favor government
censorship.
Answer: About a third of
●● Newspapers did not move toward independent ownership until...
Answer: The 1830s
●● A practical test of whether or not a government is democratic is
whether...
Answer: Citizens can affect its policies by acting through its institutions
●● Until the early 1960s, most Americans cited ________ at the source
from which they got most of their news.
Answer: Newspapers
●● Successful candidates for party nominations for the presidency owe
their nominations primarily to...
, Answer: Their own personal campaign operations
●● The act of values and beliefs that a person holds about the purpose
and scope of government is called...
Answer: Political ideology
●● In the fact of Congressional inaction on the DREAM act, President
Obama...
Answer: Instructed immigration officials to stop deporting children who
would be eligible under DREAM Act guidelines
●● In the discipline of political science, party identification refers to...
Answer: A sense of psychological attachment to a party
●● The New Hampshire presidential primary gathers the lion's share of
political and media attention because...
Answer: The New Hampshire primary is the first one to occur each
election year
●● The age at which the full benefits of social security can be paid to an
individual born in 1960 or later is...
Answer: 67
●● Children are likely to adopt their parents' party identification when...
STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
●● The free-rider problem increases the difficulty of attracting _______.
Answer: Paying members
●● During a presidential election, the tendency of journalists to limit
coverage of campaigns to coverage of which candidate is leading or
behind in the polls at the time, rather than chiefly covering the issue, is
known as...
Answer: Horse race journalism
●● In 2012 and 2013, voters approved a number of ballot propositions,
including ones in Colorado and Washington that...
Answer: Legalized marijuana
●● In 2012, an income below _______ would place a family of four
below the official U.S. poverty threshold.
Answer: $23,492
●● Laissez-Faire thought today is often compared as similar to...
Answer: Friedrich Hayek and the "Austrian School" for economics
,●● Suppose a state decides to reduce tax credits for low-income in order
to finance tax cuts for businesses and corporations; this would be an
example of a...
Answer: Distributional policy
●● A 2006 survey found that if the government feels information
threatens national security, _________ Americans favor government
censorship.
Answer: About a third of
●● Newspapers did not move toward independent ownership until...
Answer: The 1830s
●● A practical test of whether or not a government is democratic is
whether...
Answer: Citizens can affect its policies by acting through its institutions
●● Until the early 1960s, most Americans cited ________ at the source
from which they got most of their news.
Answer: Newspapers
●● Successful candidates for party nominations for the presidency owe
their nominations primarily to...
, Answer: Their own personal campaign operations
●● The act of values and beliefs that a person holds about the purpose
and scope of government is called...
Answer: Political ideology
●● In the fact of Congressional inaction on the DREAM act, President
Obama...
Answer: Instructed immigration officials to stop deporting children who
would be eligible under DREAM Act guidelines
●● In the discipline of political science, party identification refers to...
Answer: A sense of psychological attachment to a party
●● The New Hampshire presidential primary gathers the lion's share of
political and media attention because...
Answer: The New Hampshire primary is the first one to occur each
election year
●● The age at which the full benefits of social security can be paid to an
individual born in 1960 or later is...
Answer: 67
●● Children are likely to adopt their parents' party identification when...
