Define and explain the significance of the term power of the purse.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers should discuss Congress’s constitutional role as the institution in charge of taxing and spending. As applied to foreign policy, answers should discuss the congressional role in planning and passing the defense budget and other discretionary spending.

Political Science

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Which ONE of Hofstede’s cultural values dimensions is being discussed when a na-tional culture is described as being featured by significant degrees of hierarchy and well defined societal roles?

a. power distance b. individualism/collectivism (IDV) c. masculinity/femininity (MAS) d. uncertainty avoidance (UAI)

Political Science

The NAACP is the interest group responsible for pressuring the government to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Political Science

Fears about the effects of global warming include

a. more deaths from extreme heat. b. flooding due to rises in sea level. c. more severe storms. d. disruption of agricultural areas. e. All of these are correct.

Political Science

The "ethnic cleansing" campaigns of the wars in former Yugoslavia and the Rwandan genocide of 1994 are examples of

a. cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). b. war crimes. c. unjust war. d. civil wars.

Political Science