PLSI 2 Abosch Exam 2 Study Guide Fresno State
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1. Bush v. Gore Without uniform, state-wide standards to determine valid votes, a manual recount
(2000): 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.
2. Political efficacy: The sense a person has that someone in his position can influence government.
3. The first televised Vietnam
war:
4. Party Member- In the U.S., there is no membership fee or restriction. You can become a member
ship of any political party simply by registering to vote and declaring your desired party
affiliation on the registration form.
5. Political parties function to give cues to voters, to coordinate policy making, to advocate policies,
to pick candidates and run their campaigns.
6. In contrast to po- political parties in the U.S. are relatively weak in terms of enforcing their will on
litical parties in party members.
Europe,
7. The election of is significant as the first peaceful transition of power.
1800
8. Rational choice predicts that political parties try to win elections by appealing to the largest number
theory: of voters, with the result that the two major party candidates often seem very
similar.
9. Turnout and vot- are more likely when citizens have a strong sense of civic duty, a high feeling of
ing political efficacy, and/or high levels of education and wealth.
10. The Motor Voter enables people to register to vote at the same time they fill out the form to renew
Act: their driver's license.
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11. Primaries to the product of early 20th century reformers who wanted to limit the power of
choose candi- corrupt "political machines."
dates for the ma-
jor parties were
12. As the num- the proportion of the population actually exercising the right to vote has decreased.
ber of peo-
ple granted the
right to vote has
increased over
time,
13. Retrospective the idea that voters choose a candidate on the basis of his past performance rather
voting: than his promises for the future. On this theory, voters ask what the candidate
accomplished while in office.
14. Interest groups attempt to implement policy, but unlike parties, interest groups never run their own
and political par- candidates for office.
ties both
15. Public opinion Very low
analysts mostly
agree that the
public's level of
knowledge about
politics is
16. Prop 13 was the California initiative which lowered property taxes.
17. Primaries are the most common method by which political parties choose delegates to their national
conventions.
18.
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1. Bush v. Gore Without uniform, state-wide standards to determine valid votes, a manual recount
(2000): 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.
2. Political efficacy: The sense a person has that someone in his position can influence government.
3. The first televised Vietnam
war:
4. Party Member- In the U.S., there is no membership fee or restriction. You can become a member
ship of any political party simply by registering to vote and declaring your desired party
affiliation on the registration form.
5. Political parties function to give cues to voters, to coordinate policy making, to advocate policies,
to pick candidates and run their campaigns.
6. In contrast to po- political parties in the U.S. are relatively weak in terms of enforcing their will on
litical parties in party members.
Europe,
7. The election of is significant as the first peaceful transition of power.
1800
8. Rational choice predicts that political parties try to win elections by appealing to the largest number
theory: of voters, with the result that the two major party candidates often seem very
similar.
9. Turnout and vot- are more likely when citizens have a strong sense of civic duty, a high feeling of
ing political efficacy, and/or high levels of education and wealth.
10. The Motor Voter enables people to register to vote at the same time they fill out the form to renew
Act: their driver's license.
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_97l513
11. Primaries to the product of early 20th century reformers who wanted to limit the power of
choose candi- corrupt "political machines."
dates for the ma-
jor parties were
12. As the num- the proportion of the population actually exercising the right to vote has decreased.
ber of peo-
ple granted the
right to vote has
increased over
time,
13. Retrospective the idea that voters choose a candidate on the basis of his past performance rather
voting: than his promises for the future. On this theory, voters ask what the candidate
accomplished while in office.
14. Interest groups attempt to implement policy, but unlike parties, interest groups never run their own
and political par- candidates for office.
ties both
15. Public opinion Very low
analysts mostly
agree that the
public's level of
knowledge about
politics is
16. Prop 13 was the California initiative which lowered property taxes.
17. Primaries are the most common method by which political parties choose delegates to their national
conventions.
18.
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