Deck 18: Political Participation

Question 1

The riskiness of political participation depends on the type of activity and the political __________ in which it takes place.

Answer 1

regime

Question 2

Political participation as collective action occurs in the form of 1.) Social movements, 2.) Political parties, 3.) ___________

Answer 2

Interest groups

Question 3

What is the paradox of voting?

A) Surprisingly high turnouts regardless of the small chances to decide the political outcome.
B) Surprisingly low turnouts in democratic regimes.
C) The lower level of political participation in established democratic regimes compared to former authoritarian regimes.
D) The empirical evidence that turnout is higher among non-party members than among party members.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What factors contribute to explaining the paradox of voting?

A) The existence of political entrepreneurs.
B) The existence of step goods.
C) Rational actor behaviour.
D) The monitoring of collective actions.

Question 5

What can be said about voter turnouts?

A) Voter turnout is higher if legislative and presidential elections take place the same day (concurrent elections).
B) Voter turnout is higher in multi-party systems than in two party systems.
C) Voter turnout is higher if there is a high degree of organized labour.
D) Voter turnout tends to be higher in older democracies.

Question 6

What is the Ghent system?

A) In a Ghent system, labour unions are in charge of organizing unemployment insurance.
B) In a Ghent system, labour unions are granted a voice in publicly listed companies.
C) In a Ghent system, labour unions are directly involved in the legislative process.
D) In a Ghent system, labour unions have the constitutional right to fix minimum wages.

Question 7

Why can single issue parties never sustain in the long run?

A) Single issue parties never fully control the policy-making agenda.
B) Single issue parties lack the necessary political experience of campaigning.
C) Single issue parties always rely on a charismatic party leader.
D) Single issue parties lack the ideological coherence of established parties.

Question 8

Most political participation aims at the provision of__________ from whose enjoyment those who did not contribute to its production cannot be excluded.

Question 9

Which factors are positively related to the political participation of individuals.

A) The personal resources.
B) The family background.
C) The person's ideological orientation.
D) Contextual factors.

Question 10

Which factors influence the organizational form of political participation?

A) The nature of the political stakes.
B) The overall turnout rate.
C) The regime type.
D) The individual traits.