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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 1

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 2

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 3

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