A person who benefits from the work of an interest group but doesn't participate in the work required to accomplish the benefit is a(n)
a. free rider.
b. interest group member.
c. advocate.
d. activist.
e. citizen.
Q. 2Which U. S. Supreme Court case ruled that no limits may be placed on sources that can be used, or a cap on the amount spent, in ballot initiative campaigns?
a. Simpson v. United States
b. Malone v. White Motor Corp.
c. Bellotti v. First National Bank of Boston
d. Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis
Q. 3A business and professional group falls into which category of interest groups?
a. Noneconomic group
b. Government group
c. Political group
d. Economic group
e. Mixed group
Q. 4Regarding direct democracy, most people feel that
a. they can trust the campaigns put forth by measure proponents.
b. the system avoids special interest domination.
c. campaign expenditures are too high.
d. there are not enough citizen initiatives being used.
Q. 5Economic interest groups include all of the following except
a. agricultural groups.
b. labor groups.
c. local government groups.
d. education groups.
e. All of the above are types of economic interest groups.
Q. 6The large sums of money spent on ballot measure campaigns gave rise to concerns about the perspective that says paid political consultants are actors who create the demand for their services by advocating their own proposals for ballot measures. This perspective is known as
a. the initiative industrial complex.
b. the guns for hire mechanism.
c. Californication.
d. special interest domination.
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