According to the text, ______ are incarcerated at five times the rate of Whites.
A. Native Americans
B. Asian Americans
C. African Americans
D. Hispanics
C. African Americans
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The main factor in the eventual ratification of the Constitution by the states was
A. the promise that a bill of rights would be added. B. the large amount of power given to the national government. C. the elegant nature of the separation of powers. D. the inclusion of checks and balances. E. the creation of the office of vice president.
The primary purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was to
a. establish a commission to study the extent to which architectural barriers prevented access to public buildings. b. consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate. c. establish the National Council on Disability (NCD) as an independent federal agency. d. request from the General Accounting Office an estimate of the costs of workplace accommodations and of removing architectural, transportation, and communication barriers. e. replace the term "handicapped" with the term "disabled" in general use.
If current patterns hold, which of the following statements about congressional representation is most accurate?
A. The influence of special interests over Congressional representatives is higher on issues of high complexity and low visibility. B. Congressional partisanship has severed the representative connection between Congress and citizens. C. Most of the time individual members are too beholden to special interests to effectively represent the interests of voters. D. Republicans in Congress are much more closely tied to the representational interests of their districts are than Democratic members.
This question aligns with Chapter 2, "Getting Started: Finding a Research Question," of Writing a Research Paper in Political Science.When searching for information, ______.
A. a good rule of thumb is to find as many sources as pages of text that you write. For example, a 10-page paper should have about 10 sources B. recognize that you will rely on different types of sources at different points in the research process C. you must be very careful regarding sources that you find on JSTOR because these articles often reflect the biases of academic authors D. remember that quantity of information is more important than quality of information. Because this is a research paper, your professor wants to be sure that you have done a good deal of research E. all of these