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Political Science 125
Fall 2023
TAKE HOME EXAM THREE
DUE Saturday, November 18
(uploaded to the Canvas drop box no later than midnight)
***Please read directions carefully***
EXAM THREE (worth 30 points) will be a ‘take home’ exam, which means it will be available to
you as of Wednesday morning, Nov. 15th, and will be due to the CANVAS drop box by midnight,
Sat. Nov. 18th
STEP ONE
: Please download this word document (also provided to you as a rtf doc) from the CANVAS
course shell, “EXAM THREE” module,
STEP TWO
: Using this WORD (or rtf) document, type out the
answers
to the questions in the
appropriate sections below
STEP THREE
: Upload the document to the “Exam 3” drop box under the “Exam Three” module on the
Canvas course shell either as a pdf, word, or rich text formatted document
While you can consult your notes and book to answer the questions below, you are expected to do
your
own work
.
Any work deemed to be plagiarized will result in a failing grade
.
Note that this assignment
will make use of Turnitin software
CONTENT:
EXAM 3 will cover reading AND lecture material related to
:
WEEK 13: Interest Groups
Assigned reading
and lectures
+ assigned pages from your McClain and Tauber textbook
Chapters 13, 8 & 11 (see syllabus for specific pages)
WEEK 14: Election of the President/VP
Assigned reading
and lectures
from Week 14+ assigned pages from your McClain and
Tauber text-Chapters 7, 14 &15 (see syllabus for specific pages)
ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF SUPPORT
:
Live Zoom sessions Wednesday, Nov.15th from 7-8pm (via TechConnect Zoom)
+
Peer Tutoring Hours: Wednesday and Thursday afternoon (LRC in CCC Library or via Pisces
online).
See “Tutoring” tab under WEEK ONE-GETTING STARTED
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SECTION ONE:
FILL- IN-THE-BLANK (10 pts)
In the blank spaces below, please
write
and highlight
the correct term from this week’s course content.
1.
By making political ads for progressive, pro-gun control candidates with her SuperPAC, One Vote
at a Time, Sarah Ullman is engaging in
political advocacy.
2.
Unlike all the other 48 states in the United States of America that have a winner-take-all system,
Maine and Nebraska award electoral votes for the Presidency through proportional representation.
3.
At national party conventions held the summer before general elections for the presidency, there
is often a lot of discussion about the selection of a vice presidential running mate for the parties’
front runners.
In choosing the VP candidate, parties often engage in
balancing of ticket. So for
example, Joe Biden, an older, white, long term centrist Senator from Delaware with a working
class image was chosen to be the running mate of a Barack Obama, a young, black (mixed race),
Constitutional scholar newly elected Senator from the midwestern state of Illinois.
In turn, when
Biden ran for the Presidency, his running mate was a fairly young, mixed race (Indian and
Jamaican) feminist from California, newly elected to the U.S. Senate.
4.
According to Table 13.1 of your McClain and Tauber textbook (Chapter 13), which sector had the
highest number of national interest groups and associations in 2020?
.
5.
The so-called ‘Free rider” problem is most closely associated with Economist
Mancur Olson,
who argued that even if individual’s identify a common interest in a particular policy, they will
not necessarily organize to achieve this policy, particularly if they see the costs to them as
substantial but the potential benefits as diffuse and hard to guarantee.
6.
In order for a presidential candidate to win the Democratic Party nomination, they have to win a
majority of pledged delegates and
superdelegates which are largely former Democrat office
holders and Party activists, who each get to cast their individual vote at the Democratic National
Convention.
7.
Last year California enshrined the right to abortion in its Constitution. A media campaign by the
National Organization for Women (
NOW
) aimed at encouraging Californian’s to vote yes on this
Proposition, thereby establishing a Constitutional right to abortion in the state, would be an
example of a(n)
advocacy media campaign.
8.
During an election year, the first phase of the process to elect the U.S. President starts at the
beginning of the year in January or February in Iowa.
For the first time in a long time, it will be
split this year between Iowa and South Carolina.
Whereas Iowa is a state that holds
caucuses,
California, on the other hand, has a
primary system in which presidential hopefuls from each
party compete with one another for their parties’ endorsement (
note there are 2 pts here and you
need to insert the most specific term possible
).
9.
The
telecommunications industry is the industry that Walt Minnick, former conservative
democrat from Idaho, singles out when asked by the interviewers from
This American Life
if he
had ever felt uncomfortable in meetings with lobbyists.
TWO EXTRA CREDIT QUESTIONS
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Please
HIGHLIGHT the correct answer
1.
Which of the following candidates is
not
running to be President in 2024 on the
Republican
Ticket?
a.
Vivek Ramaswami
b.
Ron DeSantis
c.
Dean Philips
d.
Nikki Haley
2.
What is the group that Nancy Pelosi called out as “perilous to our democracy” and potentially
harmful to President’ Biden’s reelection chances given its plan to put forward a ‘third-party’
“unity ticket”
a.
The Green Party
b.
No Labels
c.
The Forward Party
d.
The Republican Party
SECTION TWO: ESSAY QUESTIONS (20 points)
You will need to answer one
essay question on interest groups and one
question on Presidential
elections.
To earn full credit, answers should be at least
three paragraphs and include considerable
detail and evidence of engagement with course content. Because this is a “take home” exam, I will be
grading with the understanding that you will spend more time on these questions than you would on
the in-person essays.
SECTION IIA:
INTEREST GROUPS (8 points)
Interest groups engage in a wide variety of strategies to reach hearts and minds and influence public
policy.
In this section, please answer
ONE
of the following two questions
.
OPTION ONE (8 points):
Read through the following sample mailer
.
Drawing on material from lecture, discussion and your course
textbook, identify and discuss which of the five main techniques of interest groups are deployed in the
example below
and
what leads you to this conclusion.
Be sure to include ALL specific techniques that
apply
from lecture/textbook.
Additionally, provide a detailed rationale linking the example to each
technique you identify.
MAILER FROM THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)
DISCLAIMER:
The use of this example should NOT be considered an endorsement of this organization
or its views. I utilize rotating examples across a variety of organizations that demonstrate multiple
interest group techniques.
THE NRDC MAILER:
OUR STRATEGY FOR STOPPING THE PRESIDENT’S WAR ON THE
ENVIRONMENT
STANDING STRONG FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
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