d. investigative d. populist. a. T or F: Americans overall are sensitive to the wording of poll questions, False (The level of trust has dropped significantly since the early 1960's), T or F: The public's trust in government is higher now then in the early 1960's, T or F: Children appear to be more likely to accept their parents' beliefs on policy than their parents' party identification, T or F: Evangelical Christians have become attached to Democratic presidential candidates, T or F: The gender gap in American public opinion has existed as long as voting records exist, T or F: Social class is probably a better indicator of political attitudes in England or France than in the United States, False (They are the most consistently liberal group within the Democratic party), T or F: Blacks are the least consistently liberal minority group within the Democratic party, T or F: Southern white voters remain loyal supporters of the Democratic party, False (They are more like whites on most issues), T or F: In their political attitudes, Asian Americans are more like Latinos and African Americans than like whites, T or F: Ignorance is one variable that makes public opinion hard to measure, T or F: Political activists display more consistent attitudes than do average citizens, T or F: A liberal on economic issues is one who favors government efforts to increase tax rates for wealthy individuals, False (Pure conservatives favor tough government control of crime, pornography, etc), T or F: "Pure conservatives" oppose all sorts of government extension, whether into economic or lifestyle matters, False (There is actually a steady decline in trust), T or F: Americans are increasingly showing more trust in their government, T or F: The new class draws more power from governmental than business institutions, T or F: Around the turn of the century, "yellow journalism" was supported by those who favored political reform, False (It describes the clash between the new class and the traditional middle class), T or F: The term "culture war" describes the clash between gays and the religious right, False (There are still sizeable differences on how men and women view such issues as going to war and gun control), T or F: The gender gap has all but disappeared in America, False (There are differences between those in the North, South, East and West. much determined by forces outside our control. February 1, 2023 e. internet. e. a military official, Q: Which of the following most influences editors while deciding which stories to include in the daily newspaper? _____ are an organization's informal, unwritten rules that guide individual behavior. Hideo Nagata's account statement. For greater diversification, we added to that group the six current candidates for OECD membership (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru and Romania), as well as six other economically significant electoral democracies (India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan and Uruguay), for an even 50 countries. America's voter turnout has been poor recently. __________ created new bureaucracies to administer new programs for health care (Affordable Care Act) and oversight of the financial services industry (Dodd-Frank Act). States including Alabama, Florida, and Texas responded with new measures to close down polling places, shorten early voting periods, and toughen ID requirements. e. race, Q: Conservatives tend to be committed to which of the following? . (34% of people with annual incomes between . 4 / 07 & 130 & 1,036 \\ The top one percent of wealth-holders currently possess about ________ of all American d. which stories to cover. b. a well-informed citizenry. During the last decade, the number of newspaper journalists working in the United States has decreased by 50%. wealthy. As the U.S. government grapples with another deadline to increase its debt limit, economists warn that a possible default could have disastrous economic consequences. by Claire Klobucista, James McBride and Diana Roy As the 2022 midterm elections draw near, Pew Research Center decided to revisit its occasional comparisons of U.S. turnout rates with those of other countries. He served in senior national security policy positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Justice, and as bipartisan general counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. a. are more nationally oriented. brought government into the equation of the obligations of one generation to another. b. pure conservative. Here are six key findings: 1 About nine-in-ten Swedes (92%) say representative democracy is a good way of governing their country, the highest share of any country in the survey. A simple random sample is to be taken of 527 business majors in a college to estimate the proportion favoring greater emphasis on business ethics in the curriculum. So naturally, people think that whatever goes on here is really important. e. culture war. While actuarially such an approach might be able to sustain itself, that depends largely on the contributions of younger, healthy people who will pay in but have fewer claims and premiums will be based largely on how much money is needed to pay subsidized claims rather than the individual health of those paying into the system. a. an issue such as unemployment that affects people personally Which of the following statements about the distribution of wealth in America is TRUE? Despite the fact that America is a center-right country with small and very vocal factions on each end of the political spectrum, a foreigner could never conclude that by reading, listening to or watching our so-called "mainstream media." Among the important reasons government programs are not implemented successfully is that e. the government sometimes attempts to implement programs that are not well-suited to bureaucracies. President Biden is working to expand the countrys resettlement program after the Trump administration made sharp cuts. Which prediction do you prefer? by Diana Roy d. those candidates that only liberally interpret the bible security. Every U.S. state, and the United States as a nation, is an outlier in the global context. a. try to avoid the media to prevent damage to their reputations. February 23, 2023, What Climate Change Means for the Horn of Africa, With Michelle Gavin, Podcast Last, foreigners will be amazed at how much state sponsored propaganda we allow to be broadcast here such is perhaps the true measure of our Constitutional form of government and commitment to freedom of speech. a key problem all along was inadequate funding to see the anti-poverty programs The distribution of income across segments of the American population is, which provides benefits regardless of financial need, Government benefits provided regardless of financial need are called, The median American household income is approximately. they do not include a means test to weed out welfare fraud. a. . during theirlifetimes. b. peer influence How Bad Is Ukraines Humanitarian Crisis a Year Later? In Switzerland, by contrast, just 36.1% of the voting-age population turned out in the 2019 parliamentary elections, the lowest among the 50 countries in our analysis. a. most public officials receive some money from the media. c. insider c. form of libel. Many voters are turned away at the polls for not meeting strict ID requirements. c. instability in attitudes. b. nationally owned B. had a strong antipathy to socialist programs. b. allow individuals the right to reply to an attack that occurred on a regular news program. d. presidential rewards are so attractive. a. a House member Conservatives 2 / 07 & 125 & 1,105 \\ b. Which of the following is NOT a means-tested program? e. sensationalized, Q: The aspect of news reporting in which the political ideology of journalists is most likely to come into play is the issue of: The Democratic Party, in contrast, is positioned closer to mainstream liberal parties. \hline \text { Quarter } & \text { Production in Units } & \text { Overhead Costs } \\ He goes on to ask, "Why do we seem to make things difficult for voters?" (although many more could have fallen into it for short periods). That means the rules canvary considerablydepending on where a would-be voter lives. According to Martin Gilens, whites attitudes toward welfare are strongly influenced by, whetherthey viewed African Americans as lazy or not. remained much the same, which is fairly unequal. health programs. And according to this data, just two countries have been electoral democracies even longer: Australia and Switzerland have been democracies since the mid-19th century. c. rely on the media to take the initiative on press coverage. Government Performance and Results Act. In many countries, the national government takes the lead in getting peoples names on the voter rolls whether by registering them automatically once they become eligible (as in, for example,Swedenor Japan) or by aggressively encouraging them to do so (as in theUnited Kingdom). 3 / 08 & 112 & 990 \\ The debate over how to address persistently low voter turnout is heating up ahead of the midterm elections. Between 1979 and 1995, the poorest one-fifth of the population saw theirreal incomes b. libel Y=$347+$5.76X. d. an issue such as school taxes that affects people at the local level d. close physical proximity between the press and the center of government. In implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), school administrators frequently offer families fewer services than the law calls for because c. school administrators don't have enough money to provide services to all qualifying students. Footage released by authorities reveals that Mr. Nichols was repeatedly and seriously beaten for over three minutes. More than 158.4 million people voted in that election, according to a Pew Research Center tabulation of official state returns, amounting to 62.8% of people of voting age, using Census Bureau estimates of the 2020 voting-age population. A ________ tax takes a higher percentage from the incomes of the rich than the poor, Official poverty counts tend to underestimate poverty because. But that may have less to do with voter apathy than with demographics: More than a quarter of Switzerlands permanent resident population (25.7%) areforeign nationals, and hence ineligible to vote in Swiss elections. See a collection of political cartoons on Obamacare. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. d. conservative-oriented A ________ tax takes a higher percentage from those with lowerincomes, and less from the d. random samples Sam Levine in New York. Programs to assist the poor have always been. An increasing number of polling places have been closed in favor of centralized voting centers. with Ivan Kanapathy, Bonny Lin and Stephen S. Roach The Presidents Inbox. e. none of the above, Q: Which of the following factors appears to have the least effect on political attitudes? The importance of organization is evident in the success of the British with respect to defending their ships from U-boats. a. Voter ID requirements. For the U.S., which has no central elections authority, we compiled the total votes cast in the 2020 presidential election from each states election office, and checked them against figures compiled by theOffice of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (read more about the methodology). One year in, the war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending. d. religion, music, and the Supreme Court c. an issue such as abortion or school prayer with which the courts have been involved On the one hand, four of the five countries with the highest turnout rate (whether measured as a share of the total voting-age population or of registered voters) have and enforce such laws. 4 / 06 & 133 & 1,124 \\ Compared to other Western democracies, the United States. quite low. Mpox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and mpox is rarely fatal. What Happens When the U.S. In fact, the U.S. is the only country classified by the World Bank as high-income that does not have paid maternity leave. A and B, people should take personalresponsibility forthemselves. But in the remaining 38 countries and Switzerland, which have no national compulsory-voting laws, turnout averaged 65%. poor. You are also agreeing to our. Voting systems are another factor: countries with proportional representation, where parties win seats according to the proportion of votes they receive, tend to have higher turnout[PDF] than those with winner-take-all systems, such as in the United States, in which the majority party in a given electoral district wins all the seats. In 2018, taxes at all levels of US government represented 24 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with an average of 34 percent for the other 35 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The share of national income earned by various groups in the United States is described by the Polling-place accessibility. a. pure liberal. A ________ tax requires the same share from everyone,rich and poor alike, Poverty among the elderly declined overthe past several decades primarily due to. During the 1980s and 1990s, income distribution in the United States, ) During the 1960s and 1970s, the income distribution in the United States. Q: According to recent polls, Americans claim to get most of their news from: Some local election authorities, which in the United States are usually partisan positions, have argued that such requirements are necessary to combat voter fraud. Some states are trying to reduce that gap. Historically, it's the way we chose to limit the power of our central government. PresidentRonaldReagan ________ the War on Poverty programs. We also drew data on reported registrations from theU.S. Census Bureau. Since 2021, eighteen states have passed laws increasing voting requirements. a. gender gap. On November 15, 2009, Sandra Cook, a newly hired cost analyst at Peterson Company, was asked to predict overhead costs for the company's operations in 2010 , when 530 units are expected to be produced. 6. d. Teddy Roosevelt Mpox is not related to chickenpox. Quarter1/062/063/064/061/072/073/074/071/082/083/084/081/092/093/09ProductioninUnits737668133122125122130121126112818111987OverheadCosts$7157096401,1249951,1051,1131,0369821,0609909518291,044985, Y=$347+$5.76XY=\$ 347+\$ 5.76 X All five countries with the highest voting-age turnout have presidential, as opposed to parliamentary, systems of government, and four of the five have and enforce laws makingvoting compulsory. A lot more people are politically tuned in than in the past.. c. They are tightly constrained by the need to include popular or "catchy" feature stories. Which of the following is an example of an entitlement? About ________ of Americans recently reported that they agreed that success in life is pretty In other countries notably the United States its largely up to individual voters to register themselves. 2 / 06 & 76 & 709 \\ Which of the following presidents did not accept or expand many of the programs initiated Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. EXCEP. Denmark,. False [See a collection of political cartoons on Obamacare.]. In the U.S., theres a huge gap between voting-age turnout (62.8% in 2020) and registered-voter turnout (94.1% that same year). have a more positive attitude toward government than Americans, Compared to most Western democracies, the United States provides, The United States differs from otherindustrial countries in regard to social welfare in all of the, only the Scandinavian countries spend a smaller proportion of their gross national, Compared to otherindustrialized countries, the United States ________ in providing a safety, Nationally, overthe past six decades, there has been a particularly strong redistribution of, Each of the following were provisions of the 1996 welfare reform bill EXCEPT. The . a. how to handle routine stories. a. sell equal time to all candidates. Hypothesize Would the governor have more power if the commissioner of agriculture and the commissioner of the general land office were appointed? The outflow of millions of refugees has placed a strain on neighboring countries. The national bureaucracy is staffed by roughly 2. Some examples which would perhaps surprise both Americans and democratic foreigners are telecommunications, oil and gas distribution and rail transportation. In general, wealthy areas have higher turnout, a trend that holds in the United States. Those examples illustrate how turnout comparisons between countries are seldom clean and often tricky. a. immediate deportation to those who crossed the border illegally from Mexico, without any allowance for a deportation hearing b. amnesty to illegals who had entered before 1982, and it attempted to tighten controls on those who came after c. deportation for individuals here illegally from selected countries but only after a hearing and Q: The gender gap tends to disappear when gender-sensitive issues such as ____________ are not mentioned. 3 / 07 & 122 & 1,113 \\ Turnout was 58.3% of voting-age Bulgarians in the first election (April 2021), but steadily fell to 45.8% in the most recent one (45.8% earlier this month). the United States has so much more poverty than other democracies in part because it spends so much less than they do on helping the poor. There is a tug-of-war between policies to expand voting access and to further tighten it. Of the other 40 nations which have mandatory paid leave, the shortest amount of paid leave . c. federalism. The bureaucracy may not be fully responsive to a president's wishes because a. pluralist pressures may pull the agency in a direction other than that favored by the president. Government corporations are best described as d. government agencies that provide services that could be provided by the private sector. Payment of $200.00. The 2020 voting surge followed unusually high turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, when about 47.5% of the voting-age population and 51.8% of voting-age citizens went to the polls. e. prior ratings with similar stories, Q: One reason there are so many news leaks in the United States is that: Two of the main challenges to the implementation of effective policy are a. complexity of issues and government capacity. The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index which ranks countries "by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys." The CPI generally defines corruption as an "abuse of entrusted power for private gain". In every other country surveyed with a gross domestic product of more than $30,000 per person, fewer than 40% of adults say they pray every day. "We don't seem to make voting easy for people in this country; other Western democracies do," he stated, citing weekend election days and vote-by-mail systems. b. public affairs have become much more complex. a. the public has become better educated. . e. look to the media to help form their opinions. Q: Public opinion on many matters suffers from all of the following except: by Lindsay Maizland e. insulating himself from public opinion, Q: An irony concerning government regulation of the news media is that: Also, if a young, healthy, fully employed person for example - decides he doesn't want to pay for health insurance, he will be penalized an amount roughly equal to the part of their premium that would have gone to the subsidy for people who can't pay their premiums. Backgrounder For much of that time, Jim Crowera voting requirements disenfranchised many Black Americans. According to a recent Center survey, 72% of registered voters say theyre extremely or very motivated to vote this year, and 65% say it really matters which party wins control of Congress a level roughly on par with the run-up to the 2018 vote. c. defusing an initial bias against him among reporters. 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