Question 11 2 / 2 pts Private organizations whose members act together to influence public policy to promote their common interests are known as    Political groups     Interest/pressure groups     Partisan/party groups     Push groups   Question 12 0 / 2 pts The collective opinions of large segments of the population on an issues, candidate, or public policy on which the public might be much divided and lack consensus are known as    Political opinion     Public opinion     Personal opinion     Faction opinion     Question 13 2 / 2 pts Interest groups are composed of    Individuals     Institutions     Both of the above     Neither of the above   Question 14 2 / 2 pts The media’s power to influence the importance that the public places on issues is known as    Agenda setting     Framing     Priming     Focusing   Question 15 2 / 2 pts The rules of conduct that pertain to a given political order in society, rules that are backed by the organized force of the community, are known as    Rules     Laws     Policies     Instructions   Question 16 2 / 2 pts What binds interest/pressure groups together?    Common backgrounds     An interest in politics     An interest in the economy     Common interests   Question 17 2 / 2 pts A form of journalism popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that sensationalized stories and distorted facts to sell more papers was known as    The parallel press     The penny press     Yellow journalism     The printing press   Question 18 2 / 2 pts The concept that competition among groups is the basis for public policy creation and political outcomes in a democratic government best reflects    Pluralism     Elite theory     The iron triangle     Systems theory   Question 19 0 / 2 pts In the early nineteenth century, newspapers were controlled by    Political parties     Religious organizations     Interest groups     All of the above     Question 20 0 / 2 pts Political parties in a two-party system that are not one of the dominant two political parties are known as    Recessive parties     Opposition parties     Weak parties     Minor parties