Quiz 4

Question 1

Delegate

Answer 1

MC loyalty represents constituents’ direct interests

Question 2

Trustee

Answer 2

MC represents constituent interests, but also considers national, collective, & moral concerns that sometimes cause them to vote against constituent interests

Question 3

Sub constituencies

Answer 3

Widest to narrowest: geographic, reelection, primary, & personal

Question 4

Geographic constituency

Answer 4

District viewed as a whole

Question 5

Reelection constituency

Answer 5

People who voted for the MC in the general election

Question 6

Primary constituency

Answer 6

People who provide support in primaries (loyalists, donors, interest groups)

Question 7

Personal constituency

Answer 7

Loyal advisors and aids (people they can trust)

Question 8

Home folks congressman

Answer 8

Personal, relatable

Question 9

Issue-articulating activist

Answer 9

Verbal, issue oriented, outsider, I’ll-at-ease with conventional politics

Question 10

Local political leader

Answer 10

Popular local athlete, uses national defense issues to symbolize his openness with district, supportive of the military

Question 11

Demographic change

Answer 11

As pop movement or redistricting force a member to confront unfamiliar voters or territories, reps have to adapt or perish

Question 12

Strategic reaction

Answer 12

When a fresh challenger or issue threatens established voting patterns, MCs may have to change

Question 13

Goals & ambitions

Answer 13

Desires to be president, start a family, etc., that would cause someone to adopt a different homestyle

Question 14

4 uses of political parties

Answer 14

1. Giving party leaders the capability to discipline party members
2. Reps become identified with the performance of the collectivity to which they belong, either congress or their party
3. Voters have less incentive to support individual candidates and more to support/oppose a party
4. Increased partisanship in the electorate provides party leaders with the incentive to propose policies which reach a national majority

Question 15

Legislative styles

Answer 15

1. District advocates 2. Party soldiers 3. Public face 4. Elites

Question 16

District advocates

Answer 16

None in the Republican Party, MCs devote a lot of time to the home front & are particularly bipartisan in their cosponsorship coalitions, but receive low scores on visibility (show boat index)

Question 17

Party soldiers

Answer 17

MCs constituency vote with their party, but do not engage in publicly visible activities & are not involved in raising/redistributing funds

Question 18

Public face

Answer 18

MCs are strong party voters, engage in visible activities with regularity, are active in the leg process & raise money. However, they do not devote many resources to the Homefront

Question 19

Elites

Answer 19

Final, and smallest, cluster includes MCs who

Question 20

Representational styles (grimmer)

Answer 20

1. Senate statespersons 2. Domestic policy wonks 3. Pork & policy 4. Appropriations

Question 21

Senate statespersons

Answer 21

Senators who regularly take positions in their press releases and rarely claim credit for appropriations directed toward their states

Question 22

Domestic policy wonks

Answer 22

Senators who focus on domestic policy issues & allocate few press resources to claiming credit for federal funds

Question 23

Pork & policy

Answer 23

Like statespersons & policy wonks, senators in this category regularly engage in major policy issues. But unlike the others, these senators are not bashful about touting the money that is distributed to their state

Question 24

Appropriators

Answer 24

Focus exclusively on credit claiming for money allocated to their state (all pork)

Question 25

Committees serve 2 broad purposes

Answer 25

1. Individual: constituency service & policy expertise | 2. Institutional: policy marketing, oversight, & education

Question 26

Distributional hypothesis

Answer 26

Committees are primarily designed for log rolling

Question 27

Informational hypothesis

Answer 27

Committees are primarily designed to counteract the informational advantage of the exec branch

Question 28

Party hypothesis

Answer 28

Committees are agents of the party caucus

Question 29

Standing committees

Answer 29

Permanent, hold more importance & authority than others

Question 30

Select committees

Answer 30

Temporary, created to address a specific issue for 1-2 terms

Question 31

Joint committees

Answer 31

Identical to select, but contain members of the house & senate

Question 32

Conference committees

Answer 32

Temporary, created to negotiate differences between house & senate versions of legislation

Question 33

Subconferences

Answer 33

Break large bills into smaller pieces

Question 34

Proforma

Answer 34

Issues are resolved informally before the committee convenes

Question 35

Iron triangle

Answer 35

Committee, outside groups, & bureaucratic interests

Question 36

4 contributing factors that lead to the misperception of culture wars as described by Fiorina

Answer 36

1. Confusing closely divided with deeply divided 2. Political activists are not normal people 3. Media 4. Confusing positions with choices