If current patterns hold, which of the following statements about congressional representation is most accurate?
a. The influence of special interests over Congressional representatives is higher on issues of high complexity and low visibility.
b. Congressional partisanship has severed the representative connection between Congress and citizens.
c. Most of the time individual members are
too beholden to special interests to effectively represent the interests of voters.
d. Republicans in Congress are much more closely tied to the representational interests of their districts than Democratic members.
a
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a. a fully staffed bureaucracy b. the ability to build and maintain roads and deliver utilities c. the existence of private groups or individuals to provide basic services d. relatively high rates of GDP/per capita
The second A in an ABA design refers to
A) the reversal to the no-treatment condition. B) the absolute minimum number of responses. C) the archaic principle. D) the treatment condition.
The __________ is the interest rate that the government charges when it loans money to private banks
Fill in the blank with the appropriate word.
Once the president approves a budget proposal, it is submitted to
a. Congress. b. the Federal Reserve. c. the Office of Management and Budget. d. the Secretary of the Treasury. e. the vice president.