According to the text, a stronger chief executive with more supervisory control would be _____
a. a positive change because it would give responsibility to a highly visible and accountable elected official
b. a positive change because it would lead to lower agency budgets
c. a negative change because the Texas governor, who is already powerful, would become even more powerful
d. a negative change because most agencies are politically neutral, and this would politicize agencies
e. all of these
a
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a. stating a scientist's philosophy about the world b. summarizing a group of related facts into a coherent statement c. integrating groups of facts into a whole d. generating new hypotheses for experiments
Commonly held values about the nation, state, and regime are known as
a. support. b. legitimacy. c. participation. d. political culture. e. feedback loops.
A key distinction between newspapers and social media is that newspapers ______ news content while social media is a ______.
A. distribute; censor B. censor; distributor C. produce; source D. source; producer
Which of the following is an example of the president's use of constitutional power?
A. Issuing an executive order B. Declaring national emergencies C. Giving a State of the Union message D. Invoking executive privilege E. Declaring war