Political Process Quiz 68 (30 MCQs)

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1. To enlist, seek out or attract new members to a group.
2. Most common political system.
3. Extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens living in Washington, DC.
4. Special interest groups help fund a candidate's campaign by forming .....
5. True or False:Because of the winner-takes-all system, candidates target states with dense populations for campaigning.
6. Political independence or the ability of a government to determine their own course, of their own free will. Sovereignty. A government free from external control. State.Examples:The desire for a larger Serb state that led to WWI.Decolonization of AfricaCataloniaKurdistanSouth SudanBarbs
7. What is the best title for this list:1 Recruit and nominate candidates 2. Educating the people about campaign issues 3. Helping candidates win elections 4. Monitoring the action of officeholders
8. What message is conveyed about third party candidates from this political cartoon?
9. Being in favor of or against a person or group in an unfair one sided way
10. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied, predominantly by a particular nation of people.Examples:JapanFranceGermanyIsrael
11. What is the goal of a campaign?
12. What is an example of devolution?
13. This political party typically espouses conservative views and argues for less government intervention.
14. In order to win elections, political parties must-
15. Which of the following is not a reason that people would normally fail to vote.
16. Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
17. Several parties compete for control
18. What is the message behind this political cartoon?
19. Definition:to engage in argument or discussion
20. Mudslinging, card-stacking, bandwagon, plain-folks are all examples of .....
21. Which freedom/right states that you are innocent until proven guilty?
22. Which sounds most like a Testimonial?
23. A party that is NOT the Democratic Party or Republican Party in the U.S. is a/an
24. A platform is .....
25. An attempt to remove or exterminate a group of people based upon ethnicity, religion or cultural identity.Examples:War in Bosnia (Serbs and Bosniaks)Rwanda (Hutus and Tutsis)
26. How many Senators are there per state?
27. An organized group of people who share similar political views and work to influence government
28. A message meant to persuade someone's actions or thoughts.
29. When a candidate runs for president he/she usually spends the most time in states that have ..... numbers of electoral votes.
30. Set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual.