How does the policy environment influence committees? Which of these influences do you view as most important in the modern Congress?

What will be an ideal response?


Students should describe and discuss the role of environmental factors in shaping the content of public policies/the likelihood these policies will be accepted by the full chamber, fostering mutual alliances, establishing decision-making objectives/guidelines, and influencing the level of partisanship. They should then make a case for which of these factors is most important and provide evidence from the text.

Political Science

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While the United States has had several minor parties, only the two major parties have much of a chance to win elections. What features of the U.S. political system contribute to the dominance of two parties?

a. multimember districts and a proportional voting system b. single-member districts and a nonpartisan blanket primary system c. multimember districts and a winner-take-all voting system d. single-member districts and a winner-take-all voting system

Political Science

All of the following are examples of principle appointments EXCEPT for ______.

A. cabinet secretaries B. assistant secretaries C. undersecretaries D. congressional secretaries

Political Science

A proxy war is a war at arm's length, where the two opposing sides do not directly tangle with each other

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Political Science

Differentiate scale versus index

What will be an ideal response?

Political Science