NAME:__________________________________
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Linkage Institutions Take Home Short Answers and FRQ
Respond on a separate sheet of paper. Staple this paper on top of your responses.
Directions: Respond to TWO out of the three short answers below and then select ONE of the
following FRQs to respond to by Monday. You may use your notes, any class handouts, and
the textbook to answer the FRQ you choose. By signing below you are acknowledging that
these are the only sources that you utilized and if discovered otherwise, you will forfeit your
grade.
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Short Answer (Select ONLY 2 to answer, each answer should be no more than a paragraph):
1. Identify a specific interest group at work in American politics and by using specific
evidence, assess the effectiveness of that interest group in developing political change.
2. Using specific evidence, argue for or against the current national electoral process.
3. Using specific evidence, describe the evolution of the role of media in modern impacts
and predict its future political impact.
FRQ: Choose ONE of the following to respond to. Be sure to answer all parts of the FRQ you
choose.
1. While interest groups and political parties each play a significant role in the U.S. political
system, they differ in their fundamental goals.
a. Identify the fundamental goal of interest groups in the political process.
b. Identify the fundamental goal of major political parties in the political process.
c. Describe two different ways by which interest groups support the fundamental
goal of political parties in the political process.
d. For one of the forms of support your described in (c), explain two different ways
in which that form of support helps interest groups to achieve their fundamental
goal in the political process.
2. A significant feature of the electoral college I that most states have a winner-take-all
system.
a. Describe the winner-take-all feature of the electoral college.
b. Explain one way in which the winner-take-all feature of the electoral college
affects how presidential candidates from the two major political parties run their
campaigns.
c. Explain one way in which the winner-take-all feature of the electoral college
hinders third-party candidates.
d. Explain two reasons why the electoral college has not been abolished.