Because candidate-centered electoral processes give members of Congress far more incentive to be individually responsive than collectively responsible, which of the following is also true?
a. The pursuit of reelection makes logrolling an attractive strategy.
b. Over time, revenues tend to rise while spending tends to drop.
c. Individual irresponsibility leads to collective responsiveness.
d. Candidates present themselves as agents of the party rather than as individuals.
a. The pursuit of reelection makes logrolling an attractive strategy.
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The following scatter diagram shows that:
a. there is a strong relationship between level of trust and level of democracy. b. countries with less than 30 percent of the people saying others can be trusted receive the highest democracy scores. c. most countries with less than 40 percent of the people saying others can be trusted have very low democracy scores. d. a country in which more than 50 percent of the people say others can be trusted has the lowest democracy score.
Why do deep global climate change agreements tend to fail?
a. The poorer countries are always unfairly burdened with enforcement while wealthy countries are free to violate agreements. b. Democracies take too long to make domestic policy changes leading to a break down of the agreement for less democratic nations. c. The demands for individual countries are weak because individual leaders want to remain in office for as long as possible. d. Deep agreements cost too much to carry out at this time but future technological advances will lower costs very soon.
Lobbyists may try to influence policymakers by __________
a. providing them with information about issues b. discouraging interest group members from voicing their opinions c. publicly providing legislators with bribes d. voting in favor of bills in committees
Imagine that you are looking at a country's main political institutions to find out whether they meet a standard of good, effective governance. Which of the following characteristics would signify that they fail to meet this standard?
a. They are inflexible and have not evolved. b. They are flexible but filled with partisanship. c. They are flexible but always produce the same results. d. They are flexible and have changed steadily over the years.