Which response best reflects the dilemma of pork in legislation?
A. Programmatic requests are beneficial to taxpayers but detrimental to reelection.
B. Programmatic requests favor federal employees at the expense of state employees.
C. Programmatic requests favor one district at the expense of all American taxpayers.
D. Programmatic requests are always wasteful expenditures but are useful to politicians.
Answer: C
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A. one in which no limits are placed on spending B. one in which no incumbent is running C. one in which all the challengers are outspent D. one in which a career politician decides to run again
Preference and approval voting are potentially viable alternative forms of voting because __________
a. they would not require altering the structures within which candidates are elected b. they would require altering the structures within which candidates are elected c. they would restrict interference of third party candidates in the electoral system d. they would reduce the role of states in federal elections e. they would reduce the role of the national government in state elections
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a. through Constitutional Amendment b. through judicial review c. through writ of certiorari d. through filing an amicus curiae brief
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a. is called a single blind approach. b. is known as demand characteristics. c. is corrected by a single blind approach, but not by a double blind approach. d. evaluation apprehension.