AP Government ChAPters 9 & 10

Is a bipartisan body responsible for administering campaign finance laws and enforcing compliance with those laws.

Is the Republican Party's watchdog organization, which monitors fundraising and spending by Democratic candidates.

Tabulates and certifies the votes in all federal elections.

Administers all elections in the United States from school board to president with a staff of 160,000.

Is a nonpartisan political organization that has sought for over fifty years to reform campaign financing.

Providing legitimacy to the political system

Selecting public officials

Connecting citizens to government officials

Making and coordinating public policy

Providing legitimacy to the political system

Providing legitimacy to the political system

Selecting public officials

Connecting citizens to government officials

Making and coordinating public policy

Providing legitimacy to the political system

Responsive elected officials, working in a coalition.

Broad public demand for the policy.

The actions of a dedicated policy entrepreneur.

The natural emergence of policy issues.

None of the above

Presidential election

Referendum

Recall

Initiative

Direct primary

Decided by the House of Representatives.

Decided by the full Congress.

Decided by the Electoral College.

Decided by the direct vote of the people.

Overturned by the Supreme Court.

Slavery

World War I

The Great Depression

Economics

The religious beliefs of Jefferson

That more precise and consistent standards for evaluating ballots would have to be applied in all counties for ballot recounts to be valid.

That a state recount would always be required when an outcome was in question.

That Florida must streamline all of its voting procedures by 2004.

That the goal of more consistent and precise voting standards was realistic on the state level but not necessarily on the national level.

That all ballots and election materials must be exactly the same across the country.

The suffrage has narrowed, and the turnout has increased.

Suffrage has broadened, but there has been no change in turnout.

The suffrage has broadened, and the turnout has decreased.

The suffrage has narrowed, and the turnout has decreased.

The suffrage has broadened, and the turnout has increased.

It might be rational to spend time becoming informed, deciding who to vote for, and turning out on Election Day.

In many cases, your vote will not make a difference to the outcome of the election.

The costs of voting frequently outweigh the benefits of voting.

If there is little difference in the policy positions of the candidates, it is not rational to vote.

None of the above

In an approved drive-through motor vehicle' bureau.

By filling out a form that is driven to your house.

After you take driver's education classes.

By checking a box on your license application or renewal form.

When you buy or lease a car, by checking off a voter registration form.

The costs of voting outweigh the benefits.

One should always support democratic government.

Significant policy differences exist between parties.

Government is very inefficient and needs to be streamlined.

Ordinary people can influence the government.

Australia

France

United States

Bulgaria

Italy

Having a low income

Being a college student

Being a welfare recipient

Having a college degree

Being a young adult

A candidate must get at least 75 percent of the vote to win.

A candidate must get at least sixty percent of the vote to win.

The election winner has authorization from voters to carry out his or her promised policies.

In order to improve turnout rates in the United States, voting must be made a legal requirement of all citizens, with failure to vote resulting in a small fine.

A candidate must get a majority of the votes cast (fifty percent plus one) in order to take office.

Integrity

Intelligence

Reliability

Competence

Experience

Policy voting has become harder than in the past.

A candidate's image is not as important today as it was in the past.

Americans tend to identify with the underdog.

Party identification has become more important in voting decisions.

Policy voting has become somewhat easier than in the past.

Large numbers of people who had been eligible to vote but never voted surged into the electorate.

Voting according to political party identification increased.

Political party identification no longer affected voting behavior.

The hold of the parties on voters eroded substantially.

Democrats voted along party lines more than Republicans.

Selected by state parties, usually as a reward for faithful service to the party over the years.

The members of the House from each state, who vote strictly according to who won the majority of their district's votes.

The members of Congress from each state, who vote strictly according to who won the majority of their state's votes.

Selected by state legislatures well in advance of the presidential election, and each elector votes his or her own conscience as to who would be the best president.

A bipartisan group of political scientists, public officials, jurists, and other respected individuals chosen by the governor of each state.

Different parties and candidates election after election.

A candidate who promises to continue policies that have made you feel better off.

A candidate because of his or her past stands on the issues.

The same party and candidates election after election.

Candidates for nostalgic reasons because they promise to return the country to some golden age in its past.

Incumbents who have done a good job.

Individualistic, rather than, collective policy solutions.

The private sector.

Government and its powers.

Unelected government officials in the bureaucracy.

That elections should be held more often.

That government should have more power.

That the courts should be a much smaller part of the governmental system.

That government should be cut back.

That the president should have more power.

The limitation on the amount of money people could contribute to their own election campaigns was not a violation of free speech, and was constitutional.

Congressional and state legislative districts must be of equal population and reapportioned every ten years.

The limitation on the amount of money persons could contribute to their own election campaigns violated free speech, and was unconstitutional.

Presidential election campaigns could not be paid for by tax dollars.

The forced disclosure of contributions to federal elections violated freedom of association, and was therefore unconstitutional.

Raise $5,000 on their own in at least 20 states.

Win the nomination.

Win three primaries.

Get 100,000 signatures in their support in at least five states.

Raise $50,000 on their own in all states collectively.

Banned soft money contributions.

Increased the amount that individuals could give to candidates from $1,000 to $2,000.

Indexed the limit on individual contributions to inflation for future years.

Barred groups from running "issue ads" within 60 days of a general election if they refer to a federal candidate and are not funded through a PAC.

None of the above

That is illegally given to a campaign.

That individuals contribute to their own campaign.

For voter registration drives and campaign material at the grass-roots level.

Provided through public financing.

Given directly to a candidate.

Were not subject to strict contribution restrictions so long as their political messages did not make explicit endorsements of candidates using phrases like "vote for" or "vote against."

Were subject to strict contribution restrictions.

Were permitted to make explicit endorsements of candidates so long as they were not in the form of negative ads.

Both A and C

Both B and C

Only the largest and most powerful interest groups can afford to form PACs.

They tend to support only Republican candidates.

PACs are too weak and ineffective to contribute to a strong democracy.

PACs may control what the electoral winners do once in office.

PACs are not regulated.

There is a minimum amount of money that candidates must spend to have a chance at winning.

The wealthier candidate always wins.

In order to win, a candidate must have more money than his or her opponent.

Candidates with large personal fortunes are almost guaranteed victory, unless their opponent is of roughly equal net worth.

A candidate's sense of self-worth, not money, is most important to a successful campaign.

Reinforcement

Direct mail

Persuasion

Activation

Conversion

They involve much less communication between candidates and voters than America's founders ever imagined.

They involve much more communication between candidates and voters than America's founders ever imagined.

Candidates in modern campaigns make numerous promises during nominations and elections that would have jarred with the founders' notions of the public interest.

Both B and C

All of the above

Decide on their own run for office.

Build their own personal campaign organizations.

Raise their own campaign funds.

Make individual promises about what they will do once they are in office.

All of the above.

Occur once every four years.

Are longer than American elections.

Are even less dignified than in the United States.

Occur only once every seven years.

Are limited by law to no more than two months.

Minnesota.

New Hampshire.

California.

Delaware.

Iowa.

State presidential caucuses.

State party chairpersons prior to any caucus or presidential primary.

A lottery system.

State presidential primaries.

The previous national convention.

The Kerner Commission.

The Warren Commission.

President Johnson.

An act of Congress.

The McGovern-Fraser Commission.

Are each able to cast three votes at their national convention rather than the standard one vote.

Are delegates uncommitted to a specific candidate.

Are special delegates chosen by popular election.

Have helped make the delegation more representative of the population.

Have helped restore an element of peer review to the process of choosing a presidential candidate.

Money plays too big a role.

Prominent officeholders find it difficult to take time from their current duties to run.

The media do not have enough of a role in this process.

Too much attention is paid to the early ones.

Many candidates drop out before most states have held their primary or caucus.

Increase interest in more states.

No longer allow votes in one state to have more political impact than votes in another.

Lengthen the time of the campaign.

Concentrate media coverage and increase interest and understanding.

Bring directness and simplicity to the nomination process.

Steadily increased.

Shifted to local affiliate reporters focusing on their state delegations and away from the national network anchors.

Been scaled back.

Become more dramatic.

Received increasingly high Nielsen ratings.