Legislators’ use oversight platforms to promote their own agenda and this is most closely associated with which purpose of oversight?
a. detection of waste, fraud, and abuse
b. gauging program effectiveness
c. personal advocacy
d. command and control
c. personal advocacy
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?Through recent decisions on immigration and voting rights, the Supreme Court has
A. ?sent a consistently pro-states' rights message. B. ?sent a consistently anti-states' rights message. C. ?avoided addressing states' rights and powers altogether. D. ?sent a mixed message on states' rights. E. ?encouraged the nullification of national laws.
Citizen advisory councils are established to ______.
a. subject key policy decisions to the consideration of the general public b. give input to bureaucrats before they make decisions c. limit presidential control over the bureaucracy d. provide information to Congress e. create alternative rules to those proposed by agencies
To determine causality, the researcher needs to
A) Use qualitative research methods. B) Develop high-constraint hypotheses. C) Use correlations. D) Always use t-tests.
Which of the following accurately describes why, when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed, the organization chose to use the court pathway instead of other pathways to advance its goals?
a. Lack of responsiveness from elected officials and clear evidence of racial discrimination led the organization to use the pathway of action that was open to it. b. Hostility toward African Americans had subsided, so the organization saw the opportunity to move forward in the courts with greater acceptance on the part of both judges and the public.— c. Most law schools had opened admissions to African Americans, so with the growing number of black lawyers, the court pathway seemed to be a natural course. d. The separate-but-equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson had been overturned, which allowed for the entry of African Americans into the political and legal arenas.