Duverger's Law argues (Multiple Choice)

Duverger's Law argues
 
  a. that understanding parties requires considering the ways in which they are similar to and different from businesses, interest groups, and government agencies.
  b. a country's party system is less a function of its electoral rules than of its underlying socioeconomic divisions.
  c. the fortunes of major political parties remain stable for long periods followed by a dramatic change.
  d. that parties that adopt a range of ideologically moderate policies designed to capture broad segments of the population are the most successful.
  e. that FPTP electoral systems generate two-party systems.

 Q. 2

Tony Blair brought the Labour Party in Britain to power by
 
  a. moving the party to the right to attract middle-class votes.
  b. moving the party to the left to attract working-class votes.
  c. championing a series of long-demanded constitutional reforms.
  d. moving the party to the right to attract working-class votes.
  e. moving the party to the left to attract middle-class votes.

 Q. 3

For which party has the country's use of FPTP election rules consistently caused it to have significantly disproportionately fewer seats in the legislature than its percentage of the votes in the elections?
 
  a. Labor
  b. Conservatives
  c. Christian Democrats
  d. Social Democrats
  e. Liberal Democrats

 Q. 4

Which of the following reserves seats in a particular body for the party that finishes second in a district election?
 
  a. A run-off election
  b. Principle of the first minority
  c. Primary election
  d. Secondary election
  e. Hybrid electoral system

 Q. 5

In which type of electoral system are women more likely to get elected?
 
  a. Single member district system
  b. Proportional representation system
  c. First-pastthe- post system
  d. Hybrid electoral system
  e. Preference system

 Q. 6

When voters select both a party and a candidate, and the legislature is divided into PR and district seats, it is known as a(n)
 
  a. hybrid electoral system.
  b. open list proportional system.
  c. single transferable vote system.
  d. multi-member district system.
  e. first past the post system.

 Q. 7

A single transferable vote (STV) system
 
  a. is one where multiple candidates from the same political party compete against each other for the right to represent the party in a general election for a particular political office.
  b. is an election in which the two candidates who receive the most votes in the first round compete in a second round.
  c. combines preference voting with multi-member districts.
  d. has voters casting votes for a particular party that play a role in the decision of which candidates receive the seats earned by that party.
  e. is an electoral system in which voters cast their votes for political parties and the percentage of the vote that each party receives translates into the percentage of seats that the party receives in the legislature.

 Q. 8

Which system allows voters to rank candidates in a single-member or multi-member district race?
 
  a. Principle of the first minority
  b. Hybrid electoral system
  c. Majoritarian systems
  d. Primary election systems
  e. Preference systems