AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
EXAM III
Answer the following questions.
- This is a 3 part question.
- What is a political party?
- What do parties do and what are their various functions?
- What are the two major political parties in America and in what ways they are different from each other in terms of their ideologies and thinking?
- This is a 4 part question.
- What is an interest group and how it is different from a political party?
- In what ways and how interest groups influence the political process and government policies?
- What are the major types of interest groups? Give examples of each.
- Do interest groups weaken or strengthen democracy?
- Define “civil rights” and “civil liberties”. How are they different from each other? Give examples of both.
- Write an essay on the right of free expression. Is it absolute or has limitations?
Discuss in detail.
