Which statement about voter turnout over the past fifty years is not accurate?
a. Women are more likely to vote than men
b. Higher education levels tend to increase voter turnout.
c. Whites are less likely to vote than members of other ethnic groups.
d. Wealthy people vote at higher rates than people of lower socioeconomic status.
c
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What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following differentiates a pluralist and a corporatist pattern?
A. Under corporatism there is a free market in interest group formation as opposed to under pluralism. B. Under pluralism, the government centrally organizes societal interests, while under corporatism, the state plays relatively little role in fostering or impeding interest group formation. C. Under pluralism, collective action takes the top-down approach, while corporatism promotes the grassroots mobilization of people. D. The pluralistic pattern requires that interest groups have institutionalized channels of representation in the state as opposed to the corporatist pattern which encourages interest groups to mobilize and organize societal interests freely. E. While in the pluralist pattern, interest groups form from within civil society, in the corporatist pattern the state influences interest group formation.