Soft money refers to contributions given to a political party rather than a specific candidate
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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A weakness of the instrumentalist explanation of violence is:
a. using the concept of a master cleavage between two main groups in societies. b. overstating the degree to which political leaders can manipulate identities. c. assuming that conflict among different ethnic groups is natural and inevitable. d. assuming that people need enemies to define who they are.
Pluralist politics is all about building coalitions, which means ______.
A. the formation of interest groups for key policies B. getting people to agree to disagree C. getting people to agree on an action even in the absence of agreement on the purposes of the action D. getting people to agree to an action as long as there is an agreement about the purpose of the action
What is meant by city-county consolidation?
A. It is the practice of typically large cities absorbing neighboring areas into it. B. It is the practice of multiple cities agreeing to share services. C. It is the practice of multiple cities establishing an expert organization to run services in all the cities. D. It is a means of establishing units of government to provide one or more particular services for a regional area. E. It is a means of overcoming the fragmentation of metro regions by merging the city with the county.
Originalism is the theory of constitutional interpretation, which holds that
a. appellate judges should begin with the assumption that the original finding in a case was correct. b. the original Constitution carries more weight than its amendments. c. judges should look at the Constitution as an ever-changing document that shifts to meet new circumstances and norms. d. cases should be decided by the letter of the law rather than by the spirit in which the law was established. e. judges should look to how the Constitution was understood by those who wrote and ratified it.