Texas Government Exam 2 2306

1. Interest groups typically have more time, money, and expertise to offer politicians than do average citizens. t/f?

2. Which of the following is the farmers' interest group that influenced the writing of the Texas Constitution of 1876?

3. One important way for interest groups to gain access to those in Texas government is to employ ________ as lobbyists.

4. Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment enabled people to join together and seek policy change in a number of ways EXCEPT by

5. If an interest group "gets on the late train," it means

6. What was the problem Speaker Sam Rayburn identified with the "steak men" at the beginning of the twentieth century?

7. What did Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim do in 1989?

8. Battleground Texas is the latest attempt by the Democratic Party to do all of the following EXCEPT

9. The practice of combining several individual campaign contributions into one larger contribution from a group in order to increase the group's impact is known as

10. Interest groups in Texas are NOT allowed to run paid advertisements in the media.

11. Which of the following is NOT a common way for interest groups to gain access to politicians and policy makers?

12. Most political action committee spending in Texas represents

13. Dark money is political money where the donors of the money do NOT have to be disclosed.

14. Interest groups representing labor organizations dominate Texas politics.

15. Which U.S. Supreme Court case in 2009 created the opportunity for organizations that opposed powerful incumbents to NOT disclose their donors?

16. A private group that raises and distributes funds for use in election campaigns is called a(n)

17. The largest and most effective public employee interest group in Texas is made up of

18. Spending on issue advocacy ads by political action committees need NOT be reported by a candidate.

19. Redistricting and scandal are the two greatest threats to an incumbent's electoral advantage.

20. Which interest is NOT represented in a list of the top interest groups in Texas?

21. Interest groups are often powerful in states

22. Interest groups are limited to lobbying the legislature; they CANNOT lobby executive agencies or the courts.

23. Lobbyists can do all of the following EXCEPT

24. One of the most influential professional groups in Austin is the?

25. Name recognition often gives ________ a distinct advantage in Texas elections.

26. The Motor Voter Act of 1993

27. Which of the following is NOT a requirement to vote in Texas?

28. In what case did the Supreme Court rule that a key section of the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional, which affects a key provision requiring Texas to have its new districts approved by the U.S. Department of Justice?

29. Kinky Friedman and Carole Keeton Strayhorn ran for governor as ________ in 2006.

30. The Motor Voter law requires a voter to have a driver's license.

31. Anglo Texans have voter turnout levels that are higher than Latino turnout levels

32. Women were given the right to vote in the United States with the passage of the

33. The Voting Rights Act has been renewed several times since 1965, and new provisions have been added since then. For example,

34. The purpose of a(n) ________ is to allow any registered voter to cast a ballot in either primary, but not both. There are no party restrictions.

35. In Texas, special elections are held for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

36. Which statement concerning women's suffrage is correct?

37. There is no question that ________ is/are important for candidate success in Texas.

38. In Texas, ________ is/are responsible for redistricting.

39. To register to vote in Texas, a person must have been a resident of Texas for at least 30 days.

40. In Texas elections, the ________ play(s) the largest role in running campaigns.

41. Which of the following was NOT regularly used in Texas as a method of disenfranchising many minorities before the 1960s?

42. The two most important factors that determine whether someone votes are

43. The primary elections are the second elections held in an electoral cycle.

44. Campaigns attempt to reach voters through all of the following EXCEPT

45. What is the significance of the Supreme Court case Smith v. Allwright?

46. Reapportionment involves recalculating how many congressional districts each state will receive based on the state's population.

47. Redistricting in Texas occurs

48. The Texas Constitution and election laws call the Texas system a closed primary, because one must declare one's party affiliation before voting.