Political Science Reading Quizzes

• Week 6: Andrew Guess argues the the political slant of most people's online media consumption is


  Moderate
• Week 6: The idea that people choose media that reaffirm their prior political beliefs is called:

  Media Reinforcement
• Week 6: Andrew Guess collects information on what media people consume using:

  Software that tracks their browsing data.
• Week 2: Remarking on other countries' constitutions, Dahl emphasizes:


  How few have copied the US Constitution
• Week 2: Dahl criticizes the US system for


  Unequal representation in the Senate
• Week 2: Dahl regards the Federalist Papers as


  Basically propaganda
• Week 7: If ideology did not play a role in judicial selection, Bonica and Sen (2017) argue that we would expect


  judges to be on average more liberal than the general voting population
• Week 7: According to Bonica and Sen (2017), why conservative graduates of elite law schools are significantly more likely to be judges than their more liberal peers?


  Conservative elites are constantly recruiting potential conservative candidates from a smaller pool
• Week 8: According to the authors, what is the primary assumption regarding the investment theories of political contributions?

  Legislators are highly reliant on groups for campaign funds.
• Week 8: Compared to ideology, PAC contributions show


  smaller effects on voting behavior
• Week 9: According to Orr and Huber (2020),


  policy positions are more important to interpersonal evaluations than partisanship.
• Week 9: Orr and Huber ask survey respondents what information they would want to know to plan seating at a wedding. They find that


  respondents would rather know people's policy views than partisanship