Which of the following statement most accurately describes the president’s status of head of state?
a. The president’s approval ratings often suffer when he engages in his role as head of state abroad because he is seen as neglecting his obligations at home.
b. Presidents prefer to use their role as head of state to better their negotiating ability for domestic priorities.
c. Presidents view their responsibility as head of state as a burden and a distraction from domestic issues.
d. Presidents often enjoy engaging in foreign policy making because they are less constrained by politics at home than they are in domestic affairs.
d. Presidents often enjoy engaging in foreign policy making because they are less constrained by politics at home than they are in domestic affairs.
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Which of the following prompted President Obama to cancel a scheduled summit meeting with President Putin?
a. Russian willingness to grant asylum to Edward Snowden. b. A Russian cyber-attack on the Pentagon. c. Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territory. d. A Russian law prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian children.
Which of the following statements about environmental regulations in the United States is NOT true?
a. Environmental protection represents one of the few areas in which the government has taken a limited role in regulating the activities of private actors. b. While 1970s-era environmental regulations produced visible successes, this has not been followed by a continuing national commitment to environmentalism. c. President Obama proposed a system of "cap and trade" energy regulations, which were subsequently adopted by Congress. d. The United States has fewer environmental regulations than other advanced democracies. e. States have tended to act in the absence of federal action on environmental issues as exemplified by several states adopting emissions caps that broadly follow the guidelines of the Kyoto Protocols that has not been adopted by the national government.
Relationships among Japan's central government ministries and agencies can be described as
a. intimate and cooperative. b. mutually intrusive and meddlesome. c. mutually independent and exclusionary to the extent of interfering with joint efforts. d. neither particularly cooperative nor uncooperative. e. friendly due to the overlapping nature of their duties and responsibilities.