What are four important factors to consider when thinking about the social welfare policy in the United States?
What will be an ideal response?
? Americans have a more restrictive view of who deserves assistance.
? America has been slow to adopt a national social welfare policy.
? We have insisted that states and private enterprise play a role in welfare policy.
? Nongovernmental agencies play a large role in welfare.
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A survey is most useful in gathering data on
A) the knowledge base of participants B) the attitudes of participants. C) the causes of participants' behavior. D) Both A and B
The job of the prime minister includes all of the following except:
A. serving as head of state B. party management C. winning a general election D. debating policy
What is the "law of comparative advantage"?
a) Each nation should import only what it cannot produce within the country. b) A country should only restrict trade on its most important and profitable products. c) Countries will be worse off if they restrict trade than if they concentrate on producing what they produce best and then trade. d) Governments should enact tariffs on all foreign imports to protect the domestic economy.
Why did the Supreme Court rule in the late nineteenth century that the Fourteenth Amendment did not immediately guarantee all citizens protection under national law?
a. Because the Court ruled that states had no responsibility to follow national law. b. Because the Court ruled that slaves were considered property. c. Because the Court ruled that equal protection under the law was at odds with other sections of the Constitution. d. Because the Court ruled that equal protection under the law only applied to national government actions.