The formal issue positions of a political party are referred to as
A) valence issues.
B) the party platform.
C) the party convention.
D) position issues.
B
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A. was protected by the First Amendment. B. did not affect interstate commerce. C. was not proven to be dangerous. D. was jealously guarded by NRA lobbyists. E. was protected by the Second Amendment.
The Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal are two examples of events that might explain why American levels of ___________ in the government have generally declined since the mid-1960s
Fill in the blanks with correct word
The _________ is a joint federal-state program that provides health-care insurance for low-income children.
A. Children's Health Insurance Program B. Family Social Security Plan C. Children's Quota Scheme D. Family Wellness Scheme
This question aligns with Chapter 3, "Learning Proper Citation Forms, Finding the Scholarly Debate, and Summarizing and Classifying Arguments: The Annotated Bibliography," of Writing a Research Paper in Political Science.In Robert Putnam's quote from Our Kids, we see him ______.
A. providing long quotes from other authors to make his own argument about how inequality in American society has risen since the 1970s B. clearly using the ideas of other scholars, but we have to turn to the footnotes to see who the other authors are. This is good style and shows us why we need to pay attention to footnotes C. avoiding "drop-ins" and explaining the ideas of others with paraphrases D. using sources from other authors in confusing ways. This example is included to show students exactly how not to integrate outside sources. While Putnam is an important political scientist, he is probably too sophisticated for students to use as a model E. none of these