The degree to which a body of representatives in a legislature does or does not reflect the diversity of that nation’s identities and lived experiences is known as ______.
a. divided government
b. partisan separation
c. legislative gridlock
d. descriptive representation
d. descriptive representation
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All of the following are true of comparative politics EXCEPT that it
A. enhances ability to describe and understand. B. enables the testing of hypotheses. C. stimulates the formation of general theories. D. leads to static analytical explanations of political phenomena.
Which of the following statements is TRUE of general-law cities?
a) All cities under a 100,000 population are general-law cities. b) General-law cities are bound by Dillon's rule. c) All of the state's big cities are general-law cities. d) General-law cities are also referred to as home-rule cities. e) Governmental powers in general-law cities are not limited by any specific authorization from the legislature.
A government decree that a person is guilty of a crime, rendered without benefit of a trial, is known as __________.
A. an ex post facto law B. a habeas corpus violation C. a bill of attainder D. double jeopardy
The states ensure local compliance with state educational policy in all of the following ways EXCEPT _______
A. selecting members of local school boards
B. bureaucratic oversight
C. involvement of state boards of education, state commissioners, and state departments of education
D. financial control through state allocation of funds to local school districts