What is the purpose of public financing of qualifying candidates?
A. to ensure that no private money is used during the campaign process
B. to reduce the potential for corruption in relationships between donors and elected officials
C. to prevent private candidates from spending private money that has not been disclosed
D. to increase spending on campaigns and thereby increase voter interest
E. to ensure that all campaign expenditure limits are met by limiting funding
B
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If a senator or representative were in a tight reelection race, on which of the following activities should he spend significant time in the months before the election?
A. considering the issues that interest him, with the idea that his constituents trust him to know what is most important to their districts B. making time for committee work by putting aside correspondence from his constituents C. meeting with well-known lobbyists in Washington, rather than visiting with people in his home district, so his constituents can see that he works hard D. paying attention to public opinion polls to know the will of the constituents
What is the resource virtually all interest groups have to offer?
a. Significant number of votes b. Money to contribute to campaigns c. Expertise d. Personal ties to elected officials
Dependency theory differs from modernization theory
a. by placing less stress on economic variables. b. by placing more stress on international economic factors. c. by placing more emphasis on the importance of democracy. d. by stressing the need for international aid to developing countries.
In his first term, several of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal reforms were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as an overreach of federal powers. What was the response of President Roosevelt to these Court rulings?
a. The Roosevelt administration’s New Deal reforms were implemented anyway and the Supreme Court failed to enforce its ruling. b. President Roosevelt proposed a “court-packing plan” that would increase the number of justices and allow him to appoint them. c. The Roosevelt administration complied with the Court’s federal authority based on the Supremacy Clause of Article VI. d. The Roosevelt administration appealed the ruling to the international courts. e. The Roosevelt administration took the cases into each of the state supreme courts.