Deck 6: Political Parties

Question 1

Which of the following is the method used to select party leaders in Canada?

A) Selection at party conventions
B) Selection by brokerage party
C) Selection by direct membership vote
D) Selection by parliamentary party

Answer 1

A

Question 2

At the 2009 Liberal party convention, who was confirmed as the leader of the Liberal party?

A) Paul Martin
B) Michael Ignatieff
C) Bob Rae
D) Justin Trudeau

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Primary elections are held to choose the candidates in ________.

A) Canada
B) the United States
C) the United Kingdom
D) Germany

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Green Party and the former Reform Party of Canada might be described as ________ parties.

A) programmatic
B) minor
C) right-wing
D) postmaterialist

Question 5

A generalization that claims that all organizations, even those that appear democratic, inevitably become dominated by a small group of leaders, is termed the ________.

A) organizational change view
B) dominance perspective
C) hierarchy rule
D) iron law of oligarchy

Question 6

The Conservative party originated in the 19th century as a/an ________ party.

A) mass
B) cadre
C) personalistic
D) electoral-professional

Question 7

Which of the following countries has a two-party system?

A) Canada
B) Israel
C) United States
D) Australia

Question 8

Researchers have found that there is a tendency for leading political parties to become ______ ideological as time passes and to drift to the centre of the ideological spectrum.

A) less
B) more
C) centered
D) none of the above

Question 9

What party, established in 1987, appealed to Western Canadians who were distrustful of the Progressive Conservative government's efforts to satisfy Quebec's demands for constitutional change?

A) Reform Party
B) Canadian Alliance Party
C) Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
D) New Conservative Party

Question 10

Which of the following prime ministers retired in 2003 rather than face a leadership review and be removed as party leader?

A) Paul Martin
B) Jean Chrétien
C) Kim Campbell
D) John Turner

Question 11

Which of the following has no intention of seeking votes outside their segment of society?

A) the Bloc Québécois
B) the New Democratic
C) the Green Party
D) the Liberal party

Question 12

Canada's first organized political party was the ________.

A) Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
B) New Democratic Party
C) Canadian Alliance
D) Conservative Party

Question 13

In An Economic Theory of Democracy, Anthony Downs argued that in a two-party system, the parties will tend to ________.

A) reduce the size of their memberships
B) prioritize clear objectives in their platforms
C) form more extreme programs
D) converge in the ideological centre

Question 14

The New Democratic Party of Canada has its roots in the ________.

A) Reform Party
B) Canadian Alliance Party
C) Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
D) Liberal Party

Question 15

What politician became the first member of the Green Party to be elected as a Member of Parliament in 2011?

A) Marc Emery
B) Elizabeth May
C) Stéphane Dion
D) Bruce Hyer

Question 16

Which type of parties were created in the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century to challenge the elite domination of politics?

A) Mass parties
B) Cadre parties
C) Anti-system parties
D) Mass movement parties

Question 17

How are candidates for election most commonly selected in Canada?

A) delegates are authorized to make the candidate selection
B) regional party officials form selection committees
C) extreme vetting
D) party members vote on candidates

Question 18

Which of the following best describes Canada's party system since 1993?

A) fragmented multiparty system
B) nonpartisan system
C) moderate multiparty system
D) two-party system

Question 19

A political party whose dominant concern is winning elections and that relies on professional experts to market the party to voters is known as a _____________party.

A) brokerage
B) personalistic
C) programmatic
D) electoral-professional

Question 20

What country has the highest proportion of women in legislature (63.75%) as well as reserving a certain proportion of seats for women?

A) Rwanda
B) Canada
C) Denmark
D) Iceland

Question 21

What are primary elections?

Question 22

Among the following, the party ________ influence(s) the party's election platform the most.

A) cadre
B) members
C) leader
D) caucus

Question 23

Most major political parties today can be described as electoral-professional parties.

Question 24

Canada legally established quotas for female candidates for election in 2015.

Question 25

Briefly describe the difference between a brokerage party and a programmatic party.

Question 26

The Conservative Party of Canada was formed from a merger of the Progressive Conservative party with the Canadian Alliance.

Question 27

Define a cadre party.

Question 28

In Canada, contributions to political campaigns from businesses and trade unions have been banned.

Question 29

The NDP in Canada has set an objective of having ____ percent female candidates in "winnable" constituencies.

A) 70%
B) 60%
C) 10%
D) 40%

Question 30

What are electoral-professional parties?

Question 31

The Bloc Quebecois tends to favour social democratic policies and stronger environmental measures.

Question 32

Membership in political parties has generally been increasing in recent decades.

Question 33

The political action committee that challenged the constitutionality of limiting corporate and union donations to influence elections in 2010 was called ___________.

A) Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow
B) Super PAC
C) Citizens United
D) America First

Question 34

Multiparty systems often involve coalition governments.

Question 35

Which campaign finance reform advocate said "You're never too old to raise a little hell"?

A) Granny D
B) Paul Martin
C) Barack Obama
D) Joe Volpe

Question 36

Canada's party system is presently a one-party dominant system.

Question 37

The NDP does not support welfare state measures and greater social and economic equality.

Question 38

Identify the three main types of party systems that analysts use to classify parties in liberal democracies.

Question 39

A party caucus is a meeting of a party's ________.

A) executive
B) parliamentary members
C) candidates in an election
D) delegates to a party convention

Question 40

The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century created a cleavage between agricultural interests and the new industrialists.

Question 41

Describe the policy positions of the 5 major political parties in Canada.

Question 42

Explain how the party system in Western countries developed according to the theory of Lipset and Rookan. How has this changed in more recent years?

Question 43

How does a cadre party differ from a mass party?