Event history analysis requires a researcher to do all of the following except:
A. classify historical information into discrete events
B. corroborate evidence with oral histories
C. identify prior steps that are prerequisites for subsequent events
D. diagram connections between events
B. corroborate evidence with oral histories
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following most weakens arguments from game theorists?
A) Political actors are usually predictable. B) President Obama could not estimate the effect of pulling troops out of Iraq. C) Political scientists have been very accurate in collecting data. D) Like Europe, the United States will become more socialistic over the next 100 years.
During periods of rapid growth in federal spending, such as the New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s, what has been the corresponding response of interest groups?
a. Since funding and services increased there was far less need for advocacy, thus the number of interest groups decreased. b. The number of organized and active interest groups increased significantly in order to advocate for specific economic, ideological, and political issues. c. Interest groups began to merge their organizations into the federal government’s bureaucracy. d. Interest groups disbanded because, in effect, they had been successful in advocating for the creation of the new funding programs. e. There was little discernible difference in the organization or number of interest groups.
A party convention involves a gathering of __________ who nominate the party's presidential candidate.
A. voters B. delegates C. politicians D. office holders