8 Political Participation
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- One of the reasons credited for low voting participation is
- not voting is costless
- the motor-voter debate is controversial in california because
- it would make voting more open to illegal immigrants
- which of the following generalizations about group voting tendencies is true
- Protestant voters tend to be more liberal than Roman Catholics on economic issues
- While 80% of the people vote in many European elections, about ____ people typically vote in American presidential elections.
- d) 50%
- Those who prefer to participate in politics by forming and joining non partisan groups and dealing with various issues in them are referred to as
- communalists
- Those who stay out of electoral contests and community organizations but will contact officials to deal with specific problems are called
- parochial participants
- studies of non-voters suggest that, had they voted in recent presidential elections,
- the outcome of most elections would have been about the same
- About ___ percent of the American population are completel inactive (they rarely discuss politics or vote and are not involved in organizations)
- 20
- Compared with Europeans, American voters are offered the opportunity to vote
- more frequently
- Campaigners are distinguished from the general population by their
- higher education levels and stronger opinions
- which of the following statements about the voting habits of men and women is correct?
- men and women vote at about the same rate
- adoption of the australian ballot enabled United State citizens to vote
- in secret
- individuals between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one could vote in a presidential election for the first time in
- 1972
- In the 20th Century voter turnout in US presidential elections has generally varied between
- 50 & 60 percent
- In the latter part of the nineteenth century (1860-1896) voter turnout in US presidential elections generally varied between
- 70&80 percent
- Until about 1890 ballots were printed by the
- political parties
- In this country about ___ of the voting age population is registered to vote
- 2/3
- The most important changes in elections have included all of the following except
- direct populat electionof Representatives in the House
- those who are inactive in politics tend to
- be relatively young
- in states that have instituted same day voter registration, the effect on voter turnout has been
- a slight increase
- The best evidence suggest that Americans
- are voting less, and participating in politics more
- When one refocuses analyses of voter turnout in the last fourteen presidential elections to VEP measures, it is clear that
- voter turnout has generally declined in the most recent elections
- Political demonstrations have been used by
- antiwar activists, farmers, truckers, civil rights activists, teachers
- Those who cast ballots in elections but engage in no other form of political participation are called
- voting specialists
- All of the following were methods to keep African-Americans from voting in the South except
- marital status