Responsibilities of the Texas Education Agency include all but which of the following?
a. Selecting textbooks for use by local school districts
b. Dispensing state education funds
c. Compelling local compliance with legislative mandates
d. Acting as a conduit for federal education funding
e. Selecting the Commissioner of Education
E
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The Department of Justice, containing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that plays an important role in counterterrorism and the Drug Enforcement Agency (the lead agency in fighting the drug war), is an example of
a. cabinet government. b. White House-centered government. c. internationalization of domestic bureaucracies. d. honest brokering.
After 9/11, the government of the United States acted in a manner that
A) emphasized liberty over security. B) emphasized security over liberty. C) dismissed the significance of both security and liberty. D) elevated the significance of both security and liberty. E) completely reversed all traditional political values.
Which of the following statements does not reflect the concerns of U.S. policy makers over nuclear weapons proliferation?
a. The existing nuclear regime, organized around the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), excludes nonnuclear powers from negotiating. b. Nuclear weapons aggravate internal and regional power balances while diverting scarce economic resources from productive uses. c. A more militarized world poses danger to the United States, a primary target of resentment among many foreign governments and terrorist groups. d. Nuclear proliferation is not confined to states, and the threat posed by preventing rogue states and terrorist groups from gaining access to such weapons is a central goal of policy makers.
How does a party nominate a presidential candidate?
A. The party leadership selects the nominee at the party's annual meeting. B. The party convention selects delegates for the party caucus. C. The party caucus/primary selects delegates for the party convention. D. The party members directly vote for the nominee.