The Tea Party movement grew out of the established Republican Party. Because these candidates have had access to resources that others may not have, we can consider them to be __________
a. outsiders
b. insiders
c. grassroots activists -
d. lobbyists
b
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The only way an interest group can directly lobby the judiciary is to ______.
a. sue other interest groups to undercut the opposition b. lobby the president and the Senate to nominate and confirm judges who were former lobbyists c. challenge the legality of laws by filing suit or amicus briefs in courts d. pressure and lobby juries in federal cases to decide in ways favorable to the interest group e. try to influence the elections of judges and justices through campaign spending
The ________ is a merit-based system of employment and personnel management that replaced patronage.
A. job pool B. spoils system C. political machine D. civil service E. None of these answers is correct.
What factor was mostly responsible for Rick Perry's victory over Democrat Tony Sanchez in the 2002 Texas gubernatorial election?
A. Perry used his vast wealth to finance the most expensive gubernatorial race in the history of the state. B. Perry connected Sanchez to money laundering for Mexican drug cartels in a series of televised negative ads. C. Perry launched an effective grassroots campaign and traveled to each of the state's 254 counties. D. Perry used television commercials that addressed his humble beginnings in rural Texas while depicting Sanchez as a wealthy banker who immigrated illegally to the United States from Mexico.
________ is a term given to forms of public mobilizations that are ingrained in public consciousness and that recur at regular intervals because the public intuitively understands what the form of mobilization is supposed to accomplish
A. Cohabitation B. Coalition C. United front D. Repertoires of collective action E. Entryism