Lack of political knowledge among individual Americans makes the ___________ model of democracy more difficult to sustain.
A) communitarian
B) pluralist
C) majoritarian
D) substantive
E) procedural
When a political opinion is based on what is considered to be in the best interest of the nation rather than what people think is in their own interest it is an example of
A) communitarianism.
B) gerrymandering.
C) sociotropic responses.
D) substantive recall.
E) procedural politics.
The fact that ideological conservatives believed even more strongly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 war after they were informed that subsequent investigations concluded that this was not true is an example of the
A) backfire effect.
B) fog of war.
C) misinformation effect.
D) crowd delusion syndrome.
E) willfulness effect.
African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely than whites to have _______ policy preferences on abortion.
A) conservative
B) moderate
C) liberal
D) restrictive
E) uncertain
A libertarian is most likely to exhibit the characteristics of
A) low education and high income.
B) low education and low income.
C) low income and high education.
D) high income and high education.
E) moderate education and moderate income.
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