What are "unfunded liabilities?"
What will be an ideal response?
A promise to pay an amount to someone, without adequately setting aside the necessary amounts to pay for it (in the future). In California, public employee retirement benefits in the form of pensions (mostly through CalPERS and CalSTRS) and health care form the bulk of the state's unfunded liabilities.
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The members of an intergovernmental organization are
a. nations. c. states. b. governments at all levels. d. state and nonstate actors.
How did the New Deal exacerbate the institutional problems of presidential power?
A)It contributed to diminished expectations on the part of the public, which increased opportunities for presidents to increase their power. B)It diminished the importance of domestic issues, which was the main issue area in which the president had influence. C)It increased the issues that presidents must deal with but did not expand their formal powers. D)It unbalanced executive-legislative relations by increasing the powers of Congress while eliminating many formal presidential powers.
The main function of state party committees is to
a. choose their party’s candidates. b. provide assistance to campaigns. c. fill civil service positions. d. prevent election fraud. e. man the polls on election day.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. About half of the legislative and presidential elections that took place between 1946 and 2000 were held in dictatorships. 2. The most common method used for electing presidents in the world today is the majority-runoff two-round system. 3. The supplementary vote system is cheaper for election officials to administer than majority runoff two-round systems are. 4. We can characterize all proportional representation systems as those with multimember districts and in which either a quota or a divisor is used to determine which candidates are elected in a district. 5. All proportional electoral systems have natural thresholds. Some have formal thresholds written into the electoral law as well.