Which of the following is not an impediment to the rationality of the policy-making process
a. lack of complete information
b. conflicting objectives
c. personal biases of decisionmakers
d. the rejection of the use of lessons from history to make current policy
d
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A president greeting a group of students on the White House lawn or meeting the head of a foreign nation is acting in the role of
a. chief of state. b. commander in chief. c. chief administrator. d. chief legislator. e. party leader.
People's views, in combination with what other factor, influence their responses to survey questions about in-the-news issues like gun control?
a. their representative's ideologies b. the stories and ideas that they have heard most recently c. the latest voter-tracking data d. the signals of policy makers e. the relative importance of the issue to the public at large
A fundamental international legal principle, now being challenged, that traditionally defined interference by one state in the domestic affairs of another state is illegal is called
a. a new commitment to intervention. b. nonintervention norm. c. asymmetry of motivation favoring the coerced. d. state sovereignty.
Which of the following is a dichotomous variable:
a. gender b. academic degrees c. batting average d. voter turnout statistics