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POLS 2311 Final Practice Test Part III

Questão 1 de 40

1

Conference committees are

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • temporary, invoke members from both houses of Congress, and are charged with reaching a compromise on legislation once it has been passed by both the House and the Senate.

  • temporary and are created to take up an issue that falls between the jurisdiction of existing committees, to highlight an issue, or to investigate a particular problem.

  • permanent and involves members from both the House and the Senate

  • permanent and have the power to write and propose legislation.

Explicação

Questão 2 de 40

1

A U.S. senator has a _______ year term.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • eight

  • six

  • two

  • four

Explicação

Questão 3 de 40

1

The concept of oversight refers to the effort made by

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Congress to make executive agencies accountable for their actions.

  • the president to make Congress accountable for its actions

  • the states to make the federal government responsible for its actions.

  • the courts to make the legislative and executive branches responsible for their actions.

Explicação

Questão 4 de 40

1

When President Lincoln issued a series of executive orders for which he had no clear legal authority during the start of the Civil War, it illustrated the

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • delegated powers of the presidency

  • inherent powers of the presidency

  • expressed powers of the presidency

  • "going public" strategy

Explicação

Questão 5 de 40

1

The expansion of the Executive Office of the President, the development of regulatory review, and the use of executive orders have been important because they

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • make it very difficult for challengers to defeat incumbent presidents in elections

  • have dramatically limited the power of the president and made it easier for Congress to dominate the American political system.

  • have given presidents substantial capacity to achieve significant policy results despite congressional opposition to their legislative agendas.

  • are deeply unpopular with the public and have led to the declining trust in American government

Explicação

Questão 6 de 40

1

Gerrymandering refers to the

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • investigations of the executive branch by members of Congress.

  • tactic used by members of the Senate to prevent action in legislation they oppose by continuously holding the floor and speaking until the majority backs down.

  • practice whereby legislators trade their support or opposition on one bill to get the support of another legislator on a different bill.

  • manipulation of electoral districts to serve the interests of a particular group.

Explicação

Questão 7 de 40

1

Congress is a _____ legislature with _______ members.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • bicameral; 275

  • unicameral; 342

  • bicameral; 535

  • bicameral; 100

Explicação

Questão 8 de 40

1

Under the original Constitution, senators

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • were selected by the federal judiciary

  • were appointed by state legislatures

  • could serve only two terms

  • served four-year terms

Explicação

Questão 9 de 40

1

The use of taxing and spending powers to shape the economy is part of _______ policy.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • distributive

  • redistributive

  • fiscal

  • monetary

Explicação

Questão 10 de 40

1

______ powers are specifically established by the language of the Constitution.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Expressed

  • Delegated

  • Implied

  • Inherent

Explicação

Questão 11 de 40

1

The last time Congress exercised its constitutional power to declare war was during

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • the Korean War

  • the Iraq War

  • World War II

  • the Vietnam War

Explicação

Questão 12 de 40

1

An informal group of advisers to the president is often called the

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • round table

  • Kitchen Cabinet

  • plumbers

  • inner cabinet

Explicação

Questão 13 de 40

1

The Civil Service Act of 1883 attempted to pattern government hiring after practices found in

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • business

  • the Catholic Church

  • Congress

  • local government

Explicação

Questão 14 de 40

1

A filibuster allows members of the Senate to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • add amendments to any bill at any time

  • prevent a vote on a bill by speaking continuously on the floor

  • refer a bill to multiple committees

  • avoid a conference committee

Explicação

Questão 15 de 40

1

Members of interest groups in the United States are typically people

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • from the lower socioeconomic levels

  • who identify as Democrats

  • with higher levels of income and education

  • who work in manual labor and unskilled occupations

Explicação

Questão 16 de 40

1

What is the primary function of a PAC?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • to build better networks between interest groups and political parties.

  • to produce and carry out an institutional advertising campaign

  • to raise grassroots support for a particular interest

  • to raise and distribute money to election campaigns

Explicação

Questão 17 de 40

1

Which of the following is the best description of an iron triangle?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • the domination of a few large companies in the regulation of iron mining and smelting.

  • the sable relationship between a bureaucratic agency, a clientele group, and a legislative committee.

  • the breakdown in the separation of powers between Congress, the federal judiciary, and the president.

  • the inability to reform federal rules without help from the House of Representatives, the Senate, ant he president.

Explicação

Questão 18 de 40

1

Which of the following groups is most likely to belong to the New Politics movement?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • recent immigrants to the United States

  • upper-middle-class professionals, for whom the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s were key experiences.

  • blue-collar workers whose formative experience was the Great Depression.

  • conservative evangelical southerners, reacting to the cultural changes of the 1960s.

Explicação

Questão 19 de 40

1

Oversight can best be described as the

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • approval that the Senate must give to all president appointments to the federal judiciary.

  • organizational control exercised by party whips over members of Congress.

  • efforts of Congress to supervise the manner in which its laws are implemented by the executive branch.

  • authority of committee chairs over the hearings and investigations conducted by the subcommittees.

Explicação

Questão 20 de 40

1

In order to get around the need for Senate approval of treaties, many contemporary presidents made use of ____ in foreign affairs.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • international protocols

  • diplomacy

  • executive agreements

  • executive immunity

Explicação

Questão 21 de 40

1

What is the primary constitutional task of the vice president, besides succeeding the president in case of death, resignation, or incapacitation?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives

  • to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate

  • to run the day-to-day operations of the Executive Office of the President

  • to represent the president overseas

Explicação

Questão 22 de 40

1

The solidary benefits of interest groups include

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • friendship and consciousness-raising

  • special services and goods

  • information and money

  • identification with the purpose or ideology of the group

Explicação

Questão 23 de 40

1

The term "pork barrel" refers to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • bills that grant a special privilege to a person named in the bill

  • appropriations made by legislative bodies for local projects that are often not needed but that are created so that local representatives can win reelection in their home districts.

  • the collective set of law hat regulates America's meat exports.

  • any piece of legislation that changes the number of agricultural subsidies provided to farmers by the federal government.

Explicação

Questão 24 de 40

1

What is it called when two members of Congress share no common interests but agree to support each other's bill?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • filibustering

  • delegating

  • logrolling

  • bargaining

Explicação

Questão 25 de 40

1

_____ is a strategy that attempts to mobilize the widest and most favorable climate of opinion.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Creating a "war room"

  • Going public

  • Litigation

  • Creating an iron triangle

Explicação

Questão 26 de 40

1

_____ occurs when the federal government passes authority to administer a program to state or local governments.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Privatization

  • Deregulation

  • Implementation

  • Devolution

Explicação

Questão 27 de 40

1

The best description of the ideal of pluralism is that

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • the public good should always trump individual interests.

  • interest groups should be free to compere for governmental influence.

  • interest groups are factions that endanger liberty.

  • democracy is best served by legalizing but regulating the influence of interest groups.

Explicação

Questão 28 de 40

1

Which of the following groups has had he greatest success with a strategy of litigation?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • the National Rifle Association

  • the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • the National Chamber of Commerce

  • the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Explicação

Questão 29 de 40

1

The goal of the War Powers Resolution was to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • end the Vietnam War.

  • limit the ability of Congress to cut off funding for troops when the president send them overseas without congressional approval.

  • compel a congressional declaration of war for every large-scale military operation.

  • limit the power of the president to commit American troops to military action authorization from Congress.

Explicação

Questão 30 de 40

1

When membership in an organization allows for a reduction in the price of museum tickets, it is called a

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • promotion offer

  • purposive benefit

  • material benefit

  • solidary benefit

Explicação

Questão 31 de 40

1

______ is the primary mission of the State Department.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Military protection

  • International aid

  • National security

  • Diplomacy

Explicação

Questão 32 de 40

1

A senator or representative running for reelection is called the

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • constituent

  • incumbent

  • trustee

  • delegate

Explicação

Questão 33 de 40

1

The Freedom of Information Act is designed to

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • lead to a quicker filing of habeas corpus petitions.

  • make more national security documents available to the public.

  • prevent inefficiency and waste in government management

  • expand the freedom of speech granted to government employees.

Explicação

Questão 34 de 40

1

When presidents use popular appeals in an attempt to create a mass base of support that will allow them to accomplish their goals, it is referred to as

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • "selling out"

  • "propagandizing the public"

  • "going rogue"

  • "going public"

Explicação

Questão 35 de 40

1

Which of the following best describes a way in which the House differs from the Senate?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The House is more centralized and organized than the Senate.

  • The House is a looser and more deliberative body than the Senate

  • The members of the House are much less specialized then the members of the Senate.

  • The House has a much greater level of turnover in its membership than the Senate.

Explicação

Questão 36 de 40

1

President Clinton was unusual among modern presidents because he left the White House

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • more popular than when he entered.

  • less popular than when he entered.

  • without issuing a single signing statement.

  • without issuing a single executive order.

Explicação

Questão 37 de 40

1

How do interest groups use litigation as a strategy of influence?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • They engage in institutional advertising, activate issue networks, and directly lobby judges.

  • They file amicus curiae briefs, finance lawsuits, and bring a suit on behalf of the group.

  • They work with 527 committees, directly lobby judges, and engage in institutional advertising.

  • They directly lobby judges, use direct-mail solicitations, and make campaign contributions to members of Congress.

Explicação

Questão 38 de 40

1

What is required for Congress to override a presidential veto?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • two-thirds of both houses of Congress

  • a majority of both houses of Congress

  • a unanimous vote of both houses of Congress

  • three-fourths of both houses of Congress

Explicação

Questão 39 de 40

1

Why is it important for interest groups to offer selective benefits?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • It is necessary to limit the extent of the free-rider problem

  • If they do not, people will join political partied instead

  • Selective benefits are the only way to measure the success of an interest group.

  • If they do not, people will accuse the groups of being antidemocratic

Explicação

Questão 40 de 40

1

_____ is when bureaucrats attempt to translate laws into specific rules and actions.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Adjudication

  • Implementation

  • Deregulation

  • Regulation

Explicação