POLI111 Trial Quiz 3

2. Elections that are organized by political parties to select their leaders prior to national elections are called?

3. A meeting involving party members to either nominate election candidates or discuss legislative proposals is called a.....

4. Which of the following statements precisely defines a two-party system?

5. Which of the following political leader' s regime exemplifies a one-party system in Ghana?

6. When a single party dominates and stays in office for a long period of time to the exclusion of all other competitive parties, this system is called:

7. A government created from the grouping of opposing political parties is called

8. Which of the following regimes mostly detests the existence or survival of political parties?

9. Almond and Verba's three dimensions to political culture includes all the following except:

10. The identification of key national symbols for the purpose of promoting national pride among the citizens of a particular country is called:

11. In Ghana, official national elections usually allow the selection of which of the following category of persons?

12. The existence of equally competitive group of parties m a democratic state is referred to as:

13. An election that allows the general public to vote in favor or against some issues or public policy is called a:

14. "Unanimity rule requires the agreement of.. ,,"

15. Which of the following settings can complicate a unanimous decision making?

16. "A collective decision that increases the satisfaction of some participants or at least does not worsen any participant is called…

17. When more than half of a group of voters select the same option it is called?

18. Currently, majority rule has ultimately emerged as the method for making collective decisions in allover the world because:

19. Under which of the following conditions can majority rule produce a clear winner?

20. In the winner takes all system, all the other losing candidates take nothing home:

21. The English Civil War broke out in the seventeenth century as a result of;

22. In a two-party system, only two political patties relish or enjoy the prospects of winning political power regardless of the number of parties in existence.

23. An individual designated to represent a given society with hislher expertise IS called:

25. From the above assessment, Mill believed that not every citizen deserves to be represented in a given society.

26. An individual who is under the instruction of carrying out the opinions of others without, or sometimes, with some capacity to influence them is called:

27. Under which of the following theories of representation do the supporters seek to advance ways to closely bind politicians to the views and opinions of the electorate?

28. Which of the following criticisms reflects the mandate model of representation?

29. Elections have been described as "two-way street" because:

30. The view that, citizens capitalize on elections to demand accountability and push politicians to formulate policies that suit them, is termed as:

31. The body of laws made by countries to regulate the conduct of elections in their respective jurisdictions is termed:

32. The principle of allocating seats in parliament to commensurate the percentage of votes won is called:

33. To win an election under the single-member plurality (SMP) system, a candidate needs to win a plurality of the votes cast. This system is also known as the:

34. Which of the following disadvantages reflects the party-list system of an election?

35. The terms "general will" and "national interest" have often been used by political scientists to mean:

36. Which of the following short-term factors matters most to voters during elections?

37. The activities of the mass media in exposing and rebranding political leaders to the general public. A leader considered as "political liability" by a political party may easily be........

38. In the view of most political scientists, the sociological model of voting is best understood as the:

39. In which of the following models of voting do voters make their choices based on the issues presented to them?

40. The break-down of the connection between social class and party support is termed as:

41. In all over the world "...individual or group stands for, or acts on behalf of, a larger body of people". This practice is mainly termed as:

42. The process of transferring political attitudes from one generation to another is called:

43. According to Banfield, where families promote their interest over and above that of the society is

44. The "...totality of ideas and attitudes towards authority, discipline, governmental responsibilities and entitlements, and associated patterns of cultural transmission such as the education system and family life" is termed as:

45. The assertion by Huntington that international conflicts after the Cold War will be fought along the lines of Christianity and Islam is called:

46. The main objective of every political party is to:

47. A political party with the highest national appeal where membership extends to include everybody regardless of one's social or educational background is called:

48. In politics, the privilege of citizens to vote in elections is called:

49. Which of the following political parties mostly uses unconstitutional methods to capture political power and relegates the rule of law to the background?

50. In almost all democracies, the will of the people prevails over any other authority. This concept is referred to as: