Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner argued that public policy can be explained through long periods of stability which are broken up by sudden and abrupt change known as
a. mass preferential adjustments.
b. governmental shifts.
c. turning points.
d. punctuated equilibrium.
e. scales of change.
ANS: D
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a. a political structure with defined geographic borders. b. a homogenous group of people. c. a people who feel themselves part of some larger identity group. d. a legal entity consisting of a government.
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a. aid political allies b. limit large financial transactions c. suppress international trade d. promote economic development
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a. topics not specifically mentioned but made implicit within the other amendments. b. those rights that are explicitly set forth in the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution). c. those rights incorporated into the Constitution from the state constitutions. d. those explicit rights contained in the Fourteenth Amendment.
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a. divine law b. natural law c. rebellion d. the government