Exam 5: Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Campaigns

Which of the following actions has been taken to reform negative campaign advertising?

In Buckley v. Valeo, the U.S. Supreme Court put limits on the amount of money candidates could spend on political campaigns.

American political parties are composed of three interacting parts: the party organization, the party in government, and

The 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that governments cannot limit a person's right to spend money in order to spread his or her particular political views in political campaigns was

Which of the following statements about the use of professional political consultants in state and local races is true?

Although two political parties dominate politics in the states, third parties have achieved isolated success in some states and at the local level.

Which of the following types of elections is most likely to have the highest cost of campaigning?

Which of the following is an example of a "fair" negative campaign ad?

The trend toward _______, or weakening of individual partisan attachments, slowed for a period of time but has begun to pick up again in recent years.

All states require candidates and political committees to file reports documenting the expenditure of campaign funds.

Negative campaigning in the states persists because government and the media have ignored the issue.

Since the end of the Civil War, the southern states have remained single-party Republican states.

Research on Arizona and Maine's programs for publicly funding campaigns has demonstrated that

Voters display a remarkable penchant for ticket splitting-that is, voting for a Democrat for one office and a Republican for another in the same election.

Political action committees grew out of

Political parties in the states often contain 527 groups-identifiable subsets within the party.

Most states have not limited the amount of PAC contributions that can be made to a candidate.

Tamara works for a nonprofit, tax-exempt political organization that accepts contributions and can make expenditures in campaigns, but is not explicitly connected to candidates. This type of organization is known as a

Political parties frequently develop identifiable subsets known as

The condition of contemporary American political parties has been described as decline, decay, and demise, but some observers believe that parties are enjoying a period of revitalization and rejuvenation.