What term is used to describe the system of voting where the seats of the legislature are assigned to parties based on the percentage of the popular vote that each party receives?
a. Plurality
b. Proportional
c. Mechanized
d. Subjective
e. Repetitional
Q. 2Which of the following is NOT true regarding the status of women in Japan?
a. Informal discrimination against women remains widespread in Japanese society.
b. Women were first enfranchised during the Allied occupation.
c. Women's organizations date to the Meiji period.
d. Japan is the most gender-unequal state among highly industrialized countries.
e. Liberal women's organizations continued to operate under the militaristic government during the 1930s and WWII.
Q. 3In the late 1930s, the American Bar Association recommended that states adopt methods of selecting judges that were based on merit plans. The first state to adopt this idea was Arizona in 1940.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 4What event ended -- albeit briefly -- the long-term trend of political apathy in the U.S.?
a. The 2008-2009 recession
b. The terrorist attacks of 9/11
c. The war in Iraq
d. The invasion of Afghanistan
e. The 2012 reelection of Barack Obama
Q. 5Which of the following BEST characterizes the impact of press clubs on the Japanese mass media?
a. They serve to protect the media from undue government harassment.
b. They suppress news critical of large and influential organizations, such as government agencies and business corporations.
c. They provide a network through which reporters can build close ties with one another.
d. They provide a network through which reporters can connect to government bureaucracies and private firms.
e. All of these.
Q. 6Judges on one or more courts face elections in thirty-eight states.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 7What is a major criticism of the winner-take-all electoral system?
a. It emphasizes political parties at the expense of individual candidates.
b. It limits voter choice and makes it impossible for minor parties to compete in elections.
c. It causes a pronounced tendency toward party decentralization.
d. It makes forming a national consensus more difficult.
e. It encourages the emergence of single-issue splinter parties.
Q. 8A predominant party regime is
a. a multiparty democracy in which one party dominates the parliament and executive for a long period of time.
b. the same as a single party regime.
c. one in which a single party dominates the parliament but not the executive.
d. one in which a single party dominates the executive but not the parliament.
e. an authoritarian regime is dominated by a single party even though other parties do exist.
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