E.E. Schattschneider once wrote, "The flaw with the pluralist heaven is that it sings with an upper class accent." How do resource inequalities undermine the workings of the interest group system in America?
What will be an ideal response?
An ideal response will:
1, Describe how business corporations, financial institutions, and other wealthy interests have resource advantages that let them hire professional lobbying firms, form political action committees, and spend large sums of money on elections.
2, Relate how these advantages can translate into substantial benefits through greater access to decisionmakers; it results in a privileged position for business interests, and other interests are disadvantaged.
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The Chinese Communist Party is coming under criticism today for all of the following EXCEPT
a. a growing crime problem in China. b. the emergence of an economic class system. c. economic changes that are causing social unrest. d. loosening its influence over the political system.
Dr. Buss is treating a verbally delayed 1st grader. After establishing baseline levels of correct verbal responses, Dr. Buss begins working with the child with his new therapy
Six weeks after treatment, a panel of first grade teachers and school psychologists cannot distinguish Dr. Buss's client from other 1st grade peers. This is an example of the use of a. an experimental criterion. b. the social comparison method. c. reversal. d. withdrawal
Which of the following statements is true about the modern use of treaties and executive agreements?
a. Executive agreements have been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in favor of treaties. b. The percentage of completed interstate negotiations that end in treaties and executive agreements is about the same each year. c. Most completed international negotiations (over 90 percent) end in executive agreements rather than treaties. d. Most completed international negotiations (over 90 percent) end in treaties rather than executive agreements. e. About the same number of each is completed each year.
Despite the widespread adoption of the practice of objectivity, the public still thinks that the press is biased against __________
a. all Republicans b. labor unions c. business executives d. the groups that they themselves identify with