Why is it significant that California made English its official language in 1986, and in 1998 eliminated bilingual education?
a. The U.S. Supreme Court found California's policies unconstitutional.
b. California is by far the most liberal state in the country.
c. California is often an indicator of nationwide trends.
d. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld these policies, which encouraged other states to pass similar laws.
c
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The primary impact of state voter registration laws has been to ______.
a. make it more expensive to vote b. decrease turnout c. discourage voters from identifying themselves with a party d. improve voter awareness of elections e. prevent fraud
Most large media outlets are owned by __________
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Cost-benefit analysis is the most commonly employed evaluation technique, other than the informal promptings of intuition and experience. 2. The Army Corps of Engineers used cost-benefit analysis as early as 1900s to evaluate the merits of proposed improvements to rivers and harbors. 3. When identifying and assessing costs and benefits, the analyst must be concerned with the range of effects of the proposed program and the point at which the analysis disregards the effects as being too remote for consideration. 4. In part because of the uncertainty over future costs and benefits and in part because of the general principle that people prefer a dollar tomorrow over a dollar today, the cost and benefits of projects must be converted to present values before useful cost-benefit calculations can be made. 5. The reliance on market logic for nonmarket decisions in the public sector is a fundamental irony in cost-benefit analysis.
During most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, appointments to the civil service were based primarily on
A. merit. B. education. C. patronage. D. wealth. E. experience in government.