The process of making public policy is best described as __________
a. logical
b. unpredictable
c. efficient
d. unreasonable
b
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For ideological reasons, primaries can result in an unbalanced ticket that has limited appeal in a general election and essentially produces a weak candidate. How is this possible?
A. Negative primary campaigns leave the victor bruised and at an extreme disadvantage in the general election. B. Expensive primary battles can leave the victor underfunded for the general election. C. The victor tends to be more extreme in his or her views and less palatable to the general public. D. Primaries tend to fracture the organization of a party and reduce its ability to contest the general election.
In the seventeenth century, Europe's most powerful states included all of the following except
A. France B. Germany C. England D. Russia E. Austria
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.The individual level of analysis is sometimes known as the decision-making level since it emphasizes leaders and decision-making institutions within a country. 2.The foreign policy level of analysis involves the interactions of nongovernmental groups across national boundaries that operate to a significant extent independent of relations among governments. 3.The critical theory perspective adopts a holistic interpretation of reality that cannot be broken down into separate causes and effects or tested by rationalist methods against alternative hypotheses. 4.A realist interpretation of the causes of the September 11 attacks emphasizes the ideas that define actors and guide their use of power and institutions. 5.The social sciences differ from the natural sciences in that the natural sciences depend on theories to explain phenomena while the social sciences do not.
Judicial decision making differs from legislative and executive decision making in all of the following ways EXCEPT ________
A. courts must wait until a case is brought before them before making any policy decision B. courts rarely make comprehensive policy pronouncements C. courts are rarely seen as objective, lending higher prestige to the other two branches D. interest groups can access the court only through legal procedures, whereas other informal tactics are at their disposal in the legislative and executive branches