1.
Government
is not a central
stakeholder
of
business.
a. True
b.
False
2. The way in which most legislation gets passed is through
special-interest politics.
a. True
b.
False
3. For large
corporations
today, political
involvement
is not optional and
government
has granted them more power
to
do
so.
a. True
b.
False
4. Lobbyists are generally interested in the common good.
a. True
b.
False
5. Lobbying takes place only at the federal government level.
a. True
b.
False
6. Lobbyists are affectionately known as “influence
peddlers.”
a. True
b.
False
7. To be effective, grassroots lobbying must be
genuine.
a. True
b.
False
8. Because of the difficulty in
coordinating
the effort,
grassroots
lobbying is no longer used extensively.
a. True
b.
False
9. Because it represents a homogenous group of businesses, the NFIB is able to present a unified message when
lobbying
Congress.
a. True
b.
False
10. An umbrella organization has a broad base of membership that represents businesses in several different industries.
a. True
b.
False
II.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have restricted the activity of
P
ACs
a. True
b.
False
12. Individuals are less restricted in their contributions to political candidates than are PACs.
a. True
b.
False
13. The money that PACs donate to political candidates has brought about great benefit to the political system.
a. True
b.
False
14. PACs allow labor to
organize
their giving.
a. True
b.
False
15. Leadership PACs are connected PACs.
a. True
b.
False
16. Today, many major U.S. corporations avoid paying taxes by utilizing offshore tax loopholes.
a. True
b.
False
17. PACs are uniformly well thought of in American society.
a. True
b.
False
18. Unlimited corporate political spending was made legal by the Citizens United decision of the U.S. Supreme
Court.
a. True
b.
False
19. The argument in favor of unlimited corporate political spending based on the right to free
speech.
a. True
b.
False
20. A political strategy for public activism is keeping an issue off the public agenda by providing no information to
policyrnakers.
a. True
b.
False
21. One strategy for corporate political action is constituency building.
a. True
b.
False
22. One effective strategy used by the NRA was its shutting down of scientific studies involving gun
injuries.
a. True
b.
False
23. Astroturf lobbying is massively regulated.
a. True
b.
False
24. Lobbyists often provide all of the following services,
except:
a. create slick
advertisements.
b. conduct indirect-mail campaigus.
c. provide access to
lawmakers.
d. draft legislation.
25. When a business assumes an advocacy role for its interests, it is
a. doing what is normal and
expected.
b. breaking the
law.
c. operating at the trade association level.
d. allowing government to influence it.
26. The power of businesses to drive the political agenda in Washington, D.C. is now
a. subject to special
interests.
b. virtually unchecked.
c. largely impeded.
d. in government’s interest.
27. Participation in the formulation and execution of public policy at various levels of government is
a. available only to individual citizens.
b. required by the constitution.
c. the defmition
oflobbying.
d. the defmition of political involvement.
28. Which of the following is not a major approach that business uses to influence
government?
a. lobbying
b.
PACs
c.
coalition
building
d. vigilance
29. The process of influencing public officials to promote or secure the passage or defeat of legislation is known as
a. bribery.
b. activism.
c. lobbying.
d.
suffrage.
30. Lobbying takes place at all of the following levels
except
a. umbrella organizations.
b.
PACs.
c. trade
associations.
d. company lobbying.
31. Lobbying organizations that represent the collective business interests of the United States are
called
a. umbrella organizations.
b. trade
associations.
c. labor unions.
d. company lobbying.
32. Lobbying organizations that are composed of many fmns in a given industry or line of business are
called
a. umbrella organizations.
b. trade
associations.
c. labor unions.
d. company lobbying.
33. When a firm advocates for its own special interest, it is
a. acting as an umbrella organization.
b. representing its trade
association.
c. harming it labor union.
d. company lobbying.
34. The central product of the new breed of lobbyist is
a. influence.
b.
access.
c. advice.
d. information.
35. Which of the following is not usually a function that lobbyists serve for their clients?
a.
monitoring
legislation
b. helping members of Congress get
reelected
c. organizing grassroots efforts
d. helping former members of Congress
fmdjobs
36. Business lobbyists do all of the following things for their clients
except
a. establish communications channels with regulatory bodies.
b. protect firms against surprise legislation.
c. audit the effects of passed
legislation.
d. help draft legislation.
37. The process of mobilizing individual citizens who might be most directly affected by legislative activity to political
action is called
a. grassroots lobbying.
b.
astroturflobbying.
c.
cyberadvocacy.
d. company lobbying.
38. Lobbying efforts that do not represent the genuine concerns of the citizens supposedly involved is
called
a. grassroots lobbying.
b.
astroturflobbying.
c.
cyberadvocacy.
d. company lobbying.
39. Using the Internet to communicate with grassroots supporters and enable them to contact their legislators is
termed
a. grassroots lobbying.
b.
astroturflobbying.
c.
cyberadvocacy.
d. company lobbying.
40. One
recommendation
to make
cyberadvocacy
more effective is for advocates to
a. make their e-mails targeted to the recipient and specific in
nature.
b. send their e-mails to all members of
Congress.
c. include attention-grabbing subject lines in their e-mails.
d. provide no identifying information in order to protect their privacy.
41. In lobbying, a trade association often
uses
a. written phone
banks.
b. use grassroots lobbying support.
c. lagging promotion.
d.
limited
spending.
42. Political contributions from undisclosed donors are called:
a. soft
money
b. hard
money
c. easy
money
d. dark
money
43. Which of the following is not an umbrella organization?
a. Chamber of
Commerce
b. National Association of
Manufacturers
c.
Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of
America
d. Business
Roundtable