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APG Unit 4 Part 2: Nominations, Elections, and Interest Groups
Workbook #4
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Learning Objectives: These are the key concepts that you must be able to answer after Unit 4 Part 2.
Chapter 9:
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Describe the role of campaign strategy in winning a nomination to elective office.
Describe and evaluate the caucus and primary methods of delegate selection.
Contrast the American primary system of nomination with those of other countries such as those in Europe.
Trace the historical evolution of national party conventions as nominating vehicles for presidential candidates.
Explain the ways that high-tech campaigning has changed the nature of American politics.
Examine the growth of PACs and their impact on modern campaigning.
Assess the crucial (and increasing) role of money and technology in American campaign organizations.
Analyze the role the media play in influencing the style and substance of presidential campaigns.
Evaluate whether the “openness” of the American style of campaigning leads to a more democratic system or a less democratic system of government.
Assess whether or not American presidential elections lead to an increased scope of government.
Chapter 10:
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Explain how elections provide regular access to political power and how the process is related to the level of political legitimacy.
Describe procedures that permit voters to enact legislation directly, such as the initiative, petition, and referendum.
Trace the historical evolution of the American style of campaigning from 1800 to 2004.
Identify the characteristics of voters and nonvoters.
Elaborate on the reasons why voter turnout has actually declined as the right to vote was extended to new groups.
Ascertain the role that voter registration procedures and requirements have played in structuring voter turnout.
Explain why party identification is crucial for many voters and review the decline of party affiliation since the 1950s.
Identify the conditions that must be present for true policy voting to occur.
Outline the procedures of the Electoral College and compare the present system with the process that was envisioned by the framers of the Constitution.
Understand the tasks that elections accomplish, according to democratic theory.
Establish how elections may affect public policy and how public policy may affect elections.
Analyze how elections influence the scope of government in a democracy.
Chapter 11:
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Distinguish the essential differences between interest groups and political parties.
Understand three basic theories of interest group politics: pluralist theory, elite theory, and hyperpluralist theory.
Determine the factors that tend to make an interest group successful.
Differentiate between a potential group and an actual group, and determine how the free rider problem applies.
Explain how interest groups try to shape public policy and how lobbyists represent interest groups in influencing the legislative agenda.
Describe various types of interest groups.
Explain why the authors of the textbook say that the problems of honest lobbying now appear to outweigh the traditional problems of dishonest lobbying.
Summarize the implications for the size of government that are generated by the power of PACs and special interest groups.
Analyze the appropriate role of interest groups within a democratic environment.
Chapter 9 Vocabulary: nomination, national party convention, caucus, superdelegates, frontloading, national primary, regional
primaries, party platform, Federal Election Campaign Act, Federal Election Commission, Presidential Election Campaign Fund,
matching funds, soft money, 527 groups, political action committee (PAC) (15)
Chapter 10 Vocabulary: legitimacy, referendum, initiative petition, suffrage, political efficacy, civic duty, voter registration,
Motor Voter Act, mandate theory of elections, policy voting, retrospective voting (11)
Chapter 11 Vocabulary: interest group, collective good, free-rider problem, Olson’s Law of large groups, selective benefits,
single-interest group, lobbying, electioneering, class action lawsuit, right-to-work laws, public interest lobbies (11)
Homework Assignments:
Chapter 9 Materials
 Vocabulary
o Notecards and Quiz Due:
 Textbook:
o Elections and Voting Behavior (pp. 268295) and Quiz Due:
Chapter 10 Materials
 Vocabulary
o Notecards and Quiz Due:
 Textbook:
o Elections and Voting Behavior (pp. 296321) and Quiz Due:
Chapter 11 Materials
 Vocabulary
o Notecards and Quiz Due:
 Textbook:
o Interest Groups (pp. 322-351) and Quiz
Due:
Unit 4 Part 2 Discussion:
 Federalist 10, Boiling Mad and Going Dirty Quiz
Due:
SCOTUS Unit 4 Cases (purple cards): Bush v. Gore, Buckley
v. Valeo
Extra Unit Practice: 5 Steps to a 5 Chapters
Unit 4 Test –
Unit 4 Part 2 Guided Reading Point Matrix:
5 points.
Chapter
9 –Nominations and Campaigns
10 –Elections and Voting Behavior
11 –Interest Groups
Unit 4 Part 2 FRQ Creation
Unit 4 Part 2 Arch Questions
3 points.
Status/Point Value
Unit 4 Part 2 General Problem Sets: Answer these on this sheet of paper unless otherwise noted.
Chapter 9 Questions
9.1 The Nomination Game
1. Explain what a delegate is and how they are related to the nomination process.
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Define each of the following methods of nomination. Be sure to explain each in detail and use appropriate examples:
 The Caucus Road:
o Which state holds the first caucus? Why is this important?
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The Primary Road:
o What is a super-delegate?
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Elaborate on the following issues:
 Disproportionate attention goes to the early caucuses/primaries
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Prominent politicians find it difficult to take time out from their duties to run
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Money plays too big a role in the causes/primaries
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Participation in the primaries/caucuses is low/unrepresentative
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The system gives too much power to the media
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Why are conventions still significant to the political parties?
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Explain how the convention and the party platform are connected.
9.2 The Campaign Game
1. Explain how technology has changed the campaign system in the USA.
9.3 Money and Campaigning
1. What is the Federal Election Campaign Act?
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What is the Federal Election Commission?
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How are both of these organizations related to limiting the amount of money that can be spend on a campaign?
How much money can a presidential candidate raise
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How much money can a presidential candidate raise outside the influence of government policy/regulations? Any issues with
this?
9.4 The Impact of Campaigns
1. What are three effects campaigns can have on voters?
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What three factors tend to weaken campaigns’ impacts on voters?
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9.5 Understanding Nominations and Campaigns
1. What is meant by the “permanent campaign?”
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How might campaigns affect the scope of government?
Chapter 10 Questions
10.1 How American Elections Work
1. What is the purpose of the three kinds of elections found in the United States?
 Primary
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General election
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Initiative /referendum
What is the difference between an initiative petition and a referendum?
10.2 A Tale of Three Elections
1. Complete the following table on the elections of 1800, 1896 and 2004.
Year
Candidates
and Party
Winner
Major Issues
Campaign
Style
1800
1896
2004
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Why might one vote? Cite three reasons
10.3 Whether to Vote: A Citizen’s First Choice
1. List and explain three major reasons why people might vote.
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What is the major provision of the 1993 Motor Voter Act?
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List and explain six demographic factors that are related to voter turnout.
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10.4 How Americans Vote: Explaining Citizens’ Decisions
1. What is meant by the “mandate theory of elections?”
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How has the influence of party identification on voting changed since the 1950s?
Significance
of Election
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What are the three most important dimensions of candidate image?
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What are the four conditions necessary for true policy voting to take place?
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10.5 The Last Battle: The Electoral College
1. Briefly explain how the Electoral College works.
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What are the two reasons why the Electoral College is important to presidential elections?
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10.6 Understanding Elections and Voting Behavior
1. What are the two tasks that elections accomplish, according to democratic theory?
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According to the text, what is the clearest way in which elections broadly affect public policy?
Chapter 11 Questions
11.1 The Roles of Interest Groups
1. Provide a definition of the term “interest groups.”
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Name two factors that distinguish interest groups from political parties.
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11.2 Theories of Interest Group Politics
1. Complete the following table on the theories of interest group politics.
Theory Definition
Role of Groups
Who Holds Power
Pluralist
Theory
Elite
Theory
HyperPluralist
Theory
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List five essential arguments of the group theory of politics.
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List four major points made by the elitist view of the interest group system.
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List the three major points of the hyper-pluralist position on group politics.
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11.3 What Makes an Interest Group Successful?
1. What is the difference between a potential group and an actual group?
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What is Olson’s law of large groups?
Group Impact on Public Policy
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Define the term single-issue groups and give an example.
11.5 How Groups Try to Shape Policy
1. List the four general strategies used by interest groups to shape public policy.
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What are the two basic types of lobbyists?
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List four important ways lobbyists can help a member of Congress?
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Why does PAC money go so overwhelmingly to incumbents?
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Explain how amicus curiae briefs are used by PACs?
11.6 Types of Interest Groups
1. What was the main purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act?
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What are the two main organizations that speak for corporations and business?
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List three items environmental groups have promoted and three items they have opposed.
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Name two important organizations involved in promoting equality and summarize their major goals.
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What is meant by a public interest lobby?
11.7 Understanding Interest Groups
1. How do interest groups affect the scope of government?
Unit 4 Part 2 FRQ Creation: Create an FRQ based
on ONE of the following political cartoons. The FRQ must
have a minimum of 3 action verbs that require you to
complete three different objectives and must contain a
minimum of five vocabulary terms from the Unit. Include the
answers to the FRQ as well. Complete this FRQ on the back
sheet of this paper!
APG Unit 4 Part 2 Arch Questions -Putting it all
Together
Directions: Use the information that we have covered in Unit
4 Part 2 to answer the following questions. You will
randomly present these responses to the class:
Please visit http://bit.ly/155Rcis. Pick an interest group from
the drag down menu titled “Interest Group List”. Pick an
interest group via the sector option and complete the
following questions:
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What interest group did you pick? Why?
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What sector is your interest group in?
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What does this interest group find interest in (might have to Google to find this info out)?
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How much money have they spent on the avocation of their ideology?
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Who are they contributing money to (political party, etc.)?
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Where are they contributing money (think branch of government, level of government)?
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What is an opposing interest group?
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In your opinion, does this interest group have political clout? Explain your answers with an example that directly connects
the interest group to one of their benefactors.