Proponents of ______ argue that the Court should use its power to overturn laws and actions of the other two branches of government very rarely.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


judicial restraint

Political Science

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__________ allows for a decentralized and open foreign policymaking process. This type of process is usually State Department-centered, allowing the Secretary of State to be able to act both as the principle spokesperson for U.S. foreign policy and as foreign policy advisor to the president

a. Cabinet government c. Gatekeeping government b. Agency government d. Bureaucratic government

Political Science

Imperial overstretch is best defined as

a. when a country becomes geographically too big to rule. b. when a country strikes a balance between being isolationist and highly interventionist. c. an approach that relies on self-help and independent strategies in foreign policy. d. when an imperializing country has too many colonies to be able to support. e. the historic tendency for superpowers to overspend militarily and weaken their economies leaving them vulnerable to rivals.

Political Science

To establish concurrent validity, a researcher must include which of the following in a survey that includes a new index of depression?

A. a system for weighting responses B. multiple forms of the same index C. a previously validated measure of depression D. single items and matrix questions

Political Science

Researcher B collects the number of new building permits issued in Sunny City every month for 5 years prior to the establishment of Sunny City's new development controls and for 5 years after the development controls were in place. B wants to know if the development controls changed the number of new building permits. B's research design is ______.

A. true experiment B. noncomparable groups C. cross-sectional research D. time series

Political Science