What are the potential problems associated with the retrospective voting model?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Discuss how retrospective voting gets rid of bad politicians only after disasters happen, while not guaranteeing that the new politician will be better.
2, Discuss how retrospective voting may focus on the most prominent issues and ignore less visible issues.
3, Discuss how retrospective voting may encourage politicians to produce deceptively positive but temporary results just prior to Election Day.
4, Indicate that some events are beyond the control of politicians.
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The Equal Rights Amendment ______.
A. pitted the interests of men against women so there were not enough votes for ratification B. pitted the interests of urban, upper-class women against working-class women, so the movement was divided C. pitted African American women against White women over fears that the ERA would erase the gains of the civil rights movement D. pitted feminists against antiabortion groups that produced a contentious debate, and the time for ratification expired
School choice and school vouchers are examples of
A. market-based policy alternatives to improve education quality. B. unfunded mandates. C. 21st Century Skills educational quality movement. D. policy alternatives based on the principle of merit pay.
City Councils with higher-than-average Latino representation tend to be found in the Southwest and Far West and in larger central cities that use council-manager structures
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A criticism aimed at some careless power elite supporters is that they are __________ theorists.
A. conspiracy B. conflict C. anarchy D. pluralist