A.   that tries to influence the government by getting its members elected to office.

B.   that collects fees from its members in order to pay the salaries of government officials.

C.   established by the Constitution to nominate candidates.

D.   that falls under section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. tax code.

A.   a patronage system.

B.   a system of interest groups instead of parties.

C.   a system with responsible political parties.

D.   a system that is not partisan.

A.   each political party receives an equal number of seats in the legislature.

B.   candidates can only win elections if they receive a majority of the overall votes.

C.   seats in the legislature are allocated to political parties based on their share of the total vote cast in the election.

D.   every candidate who receives above a certain percentage of the vote (usually set at 20%) is awarded a seat in the legislature.

A.   a system in which political parties tend to form factions within themselves, that is to say, a single political party forming a liberal and a conservative wing

B.   a system, laid out in the Constitution, that calls for only two major parties to compete in most elections

C.   a system in which only two parties have a realistic opportunity to compete effectively for control

D.   a system in which political parties act at two levels; a local level more responsive to members, and a national level more responsive to country-wide interests and groups

A.   the political opinions of the country’s citizens.

B.   whether the country’s media outlets are publicly or privately owned.

C.   the country’s electoral system and rules.

D.   whether election campaigns are publicly or privately financed.

A.   Winnowing

B.   Redlining

C.   Message bundling

D.   Micro-targeting

A.   There has been very little change in national party conventions over time, as they have always served mostly as media events to promote the candidate the party has already selected.

B.   There has been very little change in national party conventions over time, as they have always been primarily devoted to debating and negotiating about who the party’s nominee will be.

C.   Though national conventions prior to World War II were primarily devoted to debating and negotiating about who the party’s nominee would be, today’s conventions serve mostly as media events to promote the candidate the party has already selected.

D.   Although national conventions prior to World War II were primarily media events to promote the candidate the party had already selected, today’s conventions are devoted mostly to debating and negotiating about who the party’s nominee will be.

A.   Super PAC committees

B.   patronage

C.   caucuses

D.   soft money

A.   so many Americans identify as so-called independents rather than as members of one of the political parties.

B.   the Supreme Court ruled in 1943 that party machines cannot qualify as tax-exempt organizations.

C.   local, state, and the federal governments have decreased in size to the point that almost no jobs are available to distribute as patronage.

D.   civil service reform and the institution of the merit system mean that party leaders can no longer control who is appointed to government jobs.

A.   raising campaign funds for party candidates.

B.   enhancing the party’s media image.

C.   minimizing disputes within various parts of the party.

D.   determining committee assignments for members of Congress.

A.   Republican Party.

B.   minority party.

C.   majority party.

D.   Speaker of the House.

A.   White working-class voters; racial minorities

B.   racial minorities; government workers

C.   educated upper-middle-class professionals; White working-class voters

D.     

E.   White working-class voters; educated upper-middle-class professionals

A.   the partisan gap.

B.   the party divide.

C.   the gender gap.

D.   party polarization.

A.   African American voters

B.   young Asian American voters

C.   Latino voters

D.   older White voters

A.   Whigs; Jeffersonian Republicans

B.   Whigs; Democrats

C.   Federalists; Jeffersonian Republicans

D.   Whigs; Federalists

A.   Federalists; Whigs

B.   Federalists; Jeffersonians

C.   Democrats; Whigs

D.   Democrats; Republicans

A.   western mining interests, small farmers, and urban workers

B.   northern bankers, landowners, and factory workers

C.   eastern mining interests, southern merchants, and small farmers

D.   eastern bankers, southern planters, and wealthy merchants

A.   Barry Goldwater

B.   Franklin Delano Roosevelt

C.   Ronald Reagan

D.   Richard Nixon

A.   party polarization.

B.   party unity voting.

C.   divided government.

D.   unified government.

A.   these are the only problems that have yet to be solved by the free market.

B.   these issues are important to the middle class, whose support both parties compete for.

C.   these are the only issues that remain to be solved by elected officials.

D.   the Constitution limits the federal government’s powers to legislate on these issues, necessitating an electoral solution.

A.   strategic voting.

B.   first-past-the-post voting.

C.   top-to-bottom voting.

D.   ranked-choice voting.

A.   the Civil War Party System.

B.   the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans party system

C.   the First Party System

D.   the Second Party System

A.   opinion.

B.   tradition.

C.   ideology.

D.   identification.

A.   identification with or support of a particular party

B.   the process by which a political party is formed

C.   official acts and behaviors of political parties

D.   the pointless political fighting between the two parties that serves no purpose

A.   equally responsive to the preferences of the different classes.

B.   more responsive to the preferences of the lower and middle classes than the upper class.

C.   more responsive to the preferences of the upper and middle classes than the lower class.

D.   more responsive to the preferences of the lower and upper classes than the middle class.

A.   patronage.

B.   partisanship.

C.   Duverger’s Law.

D.   micro-targeting.

A.   Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans.

B.   Federalists and the Washingtonian Democrats.

C.   Federalists and the Whigs.

D.   Whigs and the Antifederalists.

A.   proportional representation.

B.   multimember electoral districts.

C.   the Constitution’s requirement for bipartisanship in Congress.

D.   single-member, winner-take-all electoral districts.

A.   the candidate with the most votes wins, even if he or she did not win a majority of the popular vote.

B.   a candidate must win both a primary election and a general election before taking office.

C.   a candidate can win an election only if he or she wins a majority of the popular vote.

D.   seats in the House of Representatives and Senate are allocated to political parties based on their share of the total vote cast in the election.

A.   a political system that only has two major political parties is more reflective of and responsible to voters’ preferences.

B.   a political system is only really a two-party system if other parties beyond the main two are legally prohibited.

C.   a political system with single-member districts and plurality rule elections will tend to result in a two-party system.

D.   unless a political system adopts strict majoritarian requirements for winning elections, the system will drift into a multiparty democracy.

A.   how to create economic growth, how to protect freedom of speech, and how to achieve equal treatment under the law

B.   how to increase the number of people seeking office, how to generate widespread consensus about political problems, and how to limit corruption in government

C.   how to regulate the number of people seeking public office, how to mobilize voters, and how to achieve the majorities needed to accomplish legislative goals once in office

D.   how to incorporate young people into the political system, how to convince citizens to trust the government, and how to minimize fiscal shortfalls

A.   caucus

B.   convention

C.   primary

D.   party

A.   vote on the party’s platform.

B.   select a single candidate to represent the party in the general election.

C.   take nominations for leadership positions within the party.

D.   raise money to spend on the party’s preselected candidate for the general election.

A.   redrawing each congressional district’s lines.

B.   recruiting additional candidates to run for office.

C.   ensuring that citizens are registered to vote.

D.   forming a committee within Congress to determine campaign strategy.

A.   four years and attended only by delegates from states that voted for the party’s candidate in the last presidential election.

B.   four years and attended by delegates from all 50 states.

C.   year and attended by delegates from all 50 states.

D.   two years and only attended by delegates from states that voted for the party’s candidate in the last presidential election.

A.   to nominate the candidate for the national election.

B.   to set the rules for primary and caucus elections as a national committee.

C.   exclude voters from the nomination process in primary and caucus elections.

D.   to make partisan appointments to Congress and control the party nomination

A.   only the most active members of the Republican Party voted in the 2016 primaries.

B.   party elites play an outsized role in the presidential nomination process.

C.   there are limits to party insiders’ control of the presidential nomination process.

D.   primary elections do not work to select a candidate for public office.

A.   tax cuts

B.   tariffs

C.   money

D.   jobs

A.   disenfranchisement of women.

B.   excessive power, corruption, and abuses of party machines and their bosses.

C.   system of legal segregation in southern states.

D.   growing levels of air pollution produced from rapid industrialization.

A.   the on-the-ground party members who help organize elections and mobilize voters

B.   the organized meeting in which a party selects its candidate for presidency and adopts the party platform

C.   the elite-level members of a party who determine which organizational moves to make

D.   the formal structure of a political party, including leadership, election committees, members, and paid staff

E.     

A.   expanding funding for education, public spending for infrastructure, and raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations

B.   maintaining high levels of military spending, tax relief for upper-income voters, and reducing corporate taxes

C.   ending enforcement of all immigration laws, banning abortion, and eliminating income taxes

D.   banning abortion, eliminating military spending, and raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations

A.   policy entrepreneur.

B.   venue shopper.

C.   idea capitalist.

D.   whip.

A.   Bull Moose Party

B.   American Independent Party

C.   Republican Party

D.   Democratic Party

A.   Democrats.

B.   libertarians.

C.   independents.

D.   Republicans.

A.   overwhelmingly committed to; Democratic

B.   somewhat more likely to support; Democratic

C.   somewhat more likely to support; Republican

D.   overwhelmingly committed to; Republican

A.   South, Great Plains, and Mountain West.

B.   Northeast, Midwest, and West.

C.   Northeast and South.

D.   South, Northeast, and Midwest.

A.   there are always at least three separate rounds of voting.

B.   there are always at least two separate rounds of voting.

C.   a new election is conducted if no candidate receives a majority of first-place votes.

D.   a candidate is declared the winner if he or she wins a majority of first-place votes.

A.   12

B.   2

C.   6

D.   9

A.   Lincoln’s election in 1860.

B.   Alexander Hamilton being killed by Aaron Burr.

C.   the Civil War.

D.   the War of 1812.

A.   the death of Andrew Jackson

B.   industrialization

C.   the admission of California into the Union

D.   slavery

A.   Republican; Democratic

B.   Whig; Federalist

C.   Federalist; Whig

D.   Democratic; Republican

A.   Populist

B.   Republican

C.   Democratic

D.   Whig

A.   Nixon’s popularity with African Americans.

B.   Roosevelt’s inability to unite the upper and lower middle-classes.

C.   internal party conflicts over civil rights and the Vietnam War.

D.   the Great Depression.

A.   Latinos and the business community

B.   Jews and unionized workers

C.   religious conservatives and working-class Whites

D.   African Americans and upper-class intellectuals

A.   increasing voter turnout and win back Congress

B.   adopting more of President Trump’s policies to coopt his support.

C.   changing the party’s platform to focus most on Democratic loyalists

D.   nominating a presidential candidate

A.   the System of 1896

B.   the Civil War Party System

C.   the First Party System

D.   the Contemporary Party System

A.   Bush tax cuts.

B.   System of 1896.

C.   Voting Rights Act of 1965.

D.   “southern strategy.”

A.   The Democratic candidate would win the election.

B.   The Republican candidate would win the election.

C.   Hillary Clinton would have lost the election.

D.   Another third-party candidate would win the election.

A.   recent immigrants.

B.   social and economic interests that are disregarded by the two major parties for certain reasons.

C.   extremist religious groups.

D.   the political interests of America’s allies, who attempt to influence the American decision-making process because U.S. policies can affect their futures.

A.   Ranked-choice voting has been implemented in some countries (such as Australia) and in a handful of American states and cities.

B.   A handful of American states and cities have implemented ranked-choice voting, but it has never been tried in any other democracy.

C.   Ranked-choice voting has never been implemented in the United States or any other democracy.

D.   Ranked-choice voting has been implemented in some countries (such as Australia) but has never been tried in the United States.