How do constituencies influence lawmakers’ voting decisions?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should describe two main pathways of influence. First, voters tend to elect representatives whose views mirror their own. Second, members are under electoral pressure to vote in line with constituency preferences or risk losing their seat in the next election.
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Which of the following is not used in purging voter registration lists of ineligible voters?
a. Lists of persons receiving misdemeanor convictions b. Coroners' reports c. Lists of persons receiving felony convictions d. Adjudications of mental incompetence e. Lists of voter registration cards returned undeliverable by the Post Office
Rule-making is a quasi-legislative power of administrative agencies
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Who was the Chinese leader responsible for instituting the economic reforms that have taken place there since the mid-1970s?
A) Mao Zedong B) Jiang Zemin C) Kim Il-Sung D) Deng Xiaoping
How is totalitarianism defined?
a. a government limited by rule of law in its power over the liberties of individuals b. monopoly of political power by an individual or small group that otherwise allows people to go about their private lives as they wish c. the potential for conflict between individual freedom and majority rule d. rule by an elite that exercises unlimited power over individuals in all aspects of life