What happened as a result of the Literary Digest inaccurately predicting the presidential election results of 1936?
A) ?Alfred Landon became president.
B) ?The Literary Digest changed its formula for calculating elections predictions.
C) The Literary Digest was put out of business.
D) ?Americans began to rely more heavily on straw polling.
E) ?Americans ceased to use public opinion polls to predict presidential elections.
C
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In a parliamentary system, members of the cabinet are typically __________
a. experts drawn from the private sector b. personal friends of the prime minister c. wealthy individuals with political connections d. successful and loyal members of the ruling party
A pocket veto results if:
A) the president does not send a bill back to Congress within ten congressional working days. B) the president sends a bill back to Congress after rejecting just one item in the bill on the grounds of constitutionality. C) Congress overrides a presidential veto with a two-thirds vote by the members present in each chamber within ten congressional working days. D) the president refuses to sign a bill and Congress adjourns within ten working days after the bill has been submitted to the president. E) Congress revises a bill after a presidential veto and the president approves the revised bill within ten congressional working days.
Positive-sum approaches are LEAST compatible which with theoretical approach?
A) ?Constructivism B) ?Liberalism C) ?Realism D) ?Feminism E) ?It is equally compatible with all theories
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) was a Supreme Court case that
a. created affirmative action quotas for all medical schools. b. rejected the outright use of racial quotas in college admissions but allowed race to be used as one of several factors in admissions. c. required that a quota for white students be used if there is also an existing quota for non-whites. d. required racial quotas for all college admission procedures. e. identified and prohibited the process of “reverse discrimination.”