Short-Answer questions Name ________________________

Wilson and DiIulio Date _____________ Period ____

Chapter 7 – Political Parties

1. How do scholars explain the long survival of the two-party system? pp. 165-168

2. The weakness of U.S. political parties has many causes, some the result of reform

efforts. Discuss (1) the causes responsible for parties’ weakness and (2) how

parties can be strengthened to improve the presidential selection process.

pp. 172-174

Chapter 8 – Elections and Campaigns

3. What factors have combined to make today’s political campaigns as personal and

individual as they have become? pp. 179-180

4. Compare and contrast some of the considerations involved in planning and

running congressional as opposed to presidential campaigns. pp. 180-183

5. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of campaigning is raising money. What rules

govern how presidential candidates for the major parties raise money in both

primaries and general elections? pp. 191-192

Chapter 9 – Interest Groups

6. What are the major activities engaged in by interest groups to influence policy?

pp. 232-240

7. Distinguish between the two kinds of interest groups. pp. 221-222

Chapter 10 – The Media

8. Compare freedom of the press in the United States with that in other nations

generally, and particularly with that in France and Great Britain. pp. 245-246

9. List and briefly explain the four periods of journalistic history in the United

States. pp. 246-251