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Get faster at matching terms Terms in this set (36)Which of the following is the best definition of citizen lobbyists? Individuals who have an interest in an issue and want to make their view known to public officials What term is often used to refer to interest groups, given their standing and influence in the legislative process? The third house The high rate of incumbency re-election can be explained by which of the following factors? Correct Incorrect Which statements about Proposition 54 (the California Legislature Transparency Act) are accurate? Correct Incorrect If California adopted laws to allow for so-called "clean-money elections," it would be the first state in the country to do so. False (Maine and Arizona have recently adopted laws that allow for clean-money elections.) Taxpayer protection groups have coined the phrase "the spending lobby" to describe a subset of California's interest groups. Which of the following would be an example of "the spending lobby" at work? Correct Incorrect Review the chart about ballot initiative contributions in the 2016 election, and then determine which of the following statements are accurate. picture in phone Correct Incorrect Suppose you had $8,000 that you wanted to contribute to candidates running for office in California. Which of the following would be allowed under campaign finance law in the state? You could contribute $8000 to your preferred candidate for governor (Under current law, individuals are allowed to give up to $29,200 to candidates running in state gubernatorial elections.) Study the table on lobbying expenditures in California, and then determine which of the following statements are accurate. Picture in phone Correct Incorrect Which of the following statements about state regulation of lobbyists and interest groups are accurate? Correct Incorrect Nearly every local newspaper and television station has a correspondent in Sacramento to cover state politics. False (Despite the fact that reporters and news staff have to be located in Sacramento to adequately cover state politics, there are actually very few media correspondents in Sacramento.) Prior to 2014, the state Senate had never suspended any of its members for any reason. True (For the first time in its 164-year history, the Senate suspended three of its members in 2014 for their participation in a variety of different criminal activities (Rod Wright, Leland Yee, and Ron Calderon) What was the re-election rate for incumbents in the Assembly and state Senate in 2016? 93% (Five incumbents lost their re-election campaigns in the Assembly, and no incumbents lost in the Senate.) While __________ are advocates for hire and often represent multiple clients on a variety of issues at the same time, ______________ are full-time employees of a trade, professional, or labor association and represent that group's interests only. Contract lobbyists, In-house lobbyists Which of the following statements are consistent with pluralist theory? Correct Incorrect The overwhelming majority of contributions to state legislative campaigns in 2016 came from interest groups and political parties, not from individual donors. True (In fact, 91 percent of contributions came from non-individual sources such as interest groups and political parties.) During the 2015-16 campaign cycle, the average cost of a seat in the California Assembly was _______ and the average cost of a seat in the California Senate was __________ $1,010,528 , $1,877,994 The percentage of Americans who claim they get most of their information about politics from newspapers changed from _________ in 2007 to _______ in 2016. 87% , 20% California's prison guards are currently the highest-paid prison guards in the United States. True (The high salaries paid to California's prison guards are a big reason that spending on the state's prison system has rocketed from less than 4.3 percent of the budget in 1986 to more than 11 percent today.) Which of the following are examples of crowdsourcing? Correct Incorrect Identify reasons that political parties are relatively weak in the state of California. Correct Incorrect What are independent expenditure committees, also known as Super PACs? Organizations that can spend unlimited amounts for or against candidates and ballot measure but cannot give directly to or coordinate campaign activities with candidates Which of the following is the best explanation why Governors Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown received more media attention than governors George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson, and Gray Davis? Reagan and Brown were nationally known political figures and presidential contenders while governors Deukmejian, Wilson, and Davis were not Which of the following factors have encouraged the proliferation of interest groups in California? Correct Incorrect Which of the following statements about lobbying the executive branch in the state of California are accurate? Correct Incorrect Which of the following statements best describes the number of interest groups in California since 1990? The number of interest groups has grown dramatically over the last two and a half decades. (In 1990 lobbyists represented approximately 1,300 interest groups; in 2000 the number nearly doubled to 2,552; by 2016 it had swelled to 3,663.) The California secretary of state classifies interest groups into 19 categories and tracks the amount spent on lobbying in each category. Place the following categories of interest groups in order from the largest amount spent on lobbying to the smallest amount spent on lobbying in 2015-16. Government, oil and gas, agriculture, political organizations According to governmental lobbyists, which ballot measure is most responsible for the increased amount of lobbying that local governments engage in at the state level? Proposition 13 (Proposition 13 limited property tax revenues to local government and, by doing so, created competition among local governments for state funding.) Under current campaign finance law, political action committees (PACs) in the state of California are allowed to contribute more money to gubernatorial, state Assembly, and state Senate candidates than individuals are. False Ballot measures backed by citizen groups in California succeed at a much lower rate than those that are sponsored by narrow economic interests False (Research by political scientist Elisabeth Gerber has actually shown that citizen groups are more successful in their use of the initiative process than narrow economic interests.) Which theory best describes the functioning of California politics? A mixture of pluralist and elitist theory (The influence that interest groups have over policy making in California varies widely on the issue in question and the stakes presented, with elite groups dominating at some points and losing at others.) Review the chart about independent expenditures and direct contributions, and then determine which of the following statements are accurate. Correct Incorrect If you strongly supported three different ballot initiatives in the 2020 election, what would current campaign finance law allow you to do? Donate as much money as you wanted to all three of them (There are currently no limits on the amount you can give to a ballot initiative campaign or on the number of campaigns you can give to.) Which of the following are reasons independent expenditure committees have come under scrutiny in recent years? Correct Incorrect What did Proposition 50, a referendum passed by voters in 2016, achieve? Gave the legislature the power to prohibit suspended legislators from receiving pay and benefits during their suspension perion (Because the state constitution does not allow the legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three senators suspended in 2014 (Rod Wright, Leland Yee, and Ron Calderon) still received salaries. Proposition 50 changed this.) Policies that would provide public funding to candidates who demonstrate a base of public support and who agree to forgo any other private donations are referred to as which of the following? 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