Why is mobilizing a winning coalition to pass legislation considered to be a collective action dilemma?
What will be an ideal response?
Individual members would prefer to focus only on their own electoral needs. For the individual, it would be advantageous to free ride on the efforts of colleagues rather than making potentially difficult trade-offs. Yet, if everyone did this, legislation could not pass. Leaders must figure out how to mobilize members for the public good rather than only their personal goals.
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a. favorable; unfavorable b. unfavorable; favorable c. unfavorable; also unfavorable d. favorable; also favorable e. neither favorable nor unfavorable; the same
A plea bargain is negotiated between the district or state's attorney and the accused criminal, and judges do not have to approve
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Ronald Reagan's policy of supply-side economics included
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