Exam 10: Political Participation

Which is the process by which citizens enroll themselves with the government to gain permission to vote in an election?

Sit-ins,strikes,and even violent revolts against an oppressive government,though extreme and unconventional,are nevertheless forms of ____________________.

What is socioeconomic status (SES)? What are identifiable components of SES? What is the relationship between SES and political participation in the United States? Is the relationship between SES and participation generally different in other democracies?

Explain the paradox of voting.What is paradoxical or puzzling about individuals' decisions to cast a ballot? What accounts for the fact that some individuals ultimately do vote,overcoming the paradox,while others do not?

____________________ is the most fundamental participatory act in any democracy.

How do interest groups and other organizations work to mobilize voters? How do these mobilization efforts relate to the paradox of voting? In other words,how do these activities help potential voters overcome forces that may prevent them from voting?

Why do countries like Iran,Pakistan,and Zimbabwe consider themselves "democracies?"

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 caused states to ____________________.

Recent studies using experimental methods confirm that ____________________ increase voter turnout more than ____________________.

Which of the following is true about voting behavior?

Which region of the country tends to have lower voter turnout?

The "paradox of voting" refers to the ____________________ that emerges in the context of mass electoral participation.

Shelly wants to vote in the upcoming election.Before she will be eligible to vote,Shelly knows that she must fill out forms and provide personal information to her state government.This process is called ____________________.

Americans ____________________ at lower rates than people in most other democracies.

Which are efforts made by organizations to facilitate or encourage voting?

The study of political participation is ____________________ in the social sciences.

In recent years there has been intense controversy over the implementation of voter ID requirements at the polls.However,some version of the reform has been passed by ____________________ of the states and requires that voters present a government-issued photo identification in order to prove identity and eligibility.

Since voting is a costly activity and since any individual's vote is unlikely to influence the outcome of most elections,citizens' decisions about whether or not to participate in an election may constitute a/an ____________________.

Which is the principle that the authority to make decisions on behalf of society belongs to the people?

In the late 1960s,college students in California launched a campaign called "Let Us Vote," or "LUV," to lower the minimum legal voting age from 21 to 18.Congress passed a law that mandated voting rights for eighteen- to twenty-one-year-olds.However,the Supreme Court ruled that states had the right to set their own voting age restrictions.Some states set the voting age at 18,while others left it at 21.As a result,many young people on Election Day had to be given separate ballots because they were only permitted to vote for federal offices.This is an example of a ____________________.