Many researchers devise "sham" treatments for their control groups to undergo, meaning that the control group interacts with researchers in some way that is not thought to impact the dependent variable, or the outcome This is done to weaken the argument that the treatment group improvement may have occurred in part simply due to the attention this group received from the researchers. These researchers are attempting to control for which of the following?

What are the three basic sources of power in a political system?

bureaucracy power authority force influence

The application of new media to campaign politics is called __________

a. cyberpolitics b. digitization c. crowdsourcing d. cyberculture

Which of the following types of law always apply only to the executive branch of the federal government?

a. an executive order b. an administrative law c. a constitutional amendment d. an act of Congress e. a tort

What happens if assume that the citizen lacks a credible exit threat and the government is autonomous?

A. The citizen chooses to exit regardless of their lack of a credit exit threat. B. The citizen will be successful in using their voice at the beginning of the decision tree. C. The government will respond positively to the citizen’s voice at the beginning of the decision tree. D. The government will ignore the citizen, and the citizen will remain loyal.