Research has shown that letters and phone calls from constituents to members of Congress are which of the following?
a. unwelcomed intrusions on their ability to make decisions
b. almost always motivated by interest groups
c. less influential than professional lobbyists
d. a source of ideas for new laws and policies
d
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Which of the following was not a factor in the change and growth of MNCs in the 1990s and into the twenty-first century?
a. the collapse of communism b. the move toward regional and global integration c. the reemergence of economics in international politics and the reduction of trade barriers by states d. the increased role of licensing arrangements between MNCs and host country companies
When would an experimenter want to use "yoked" matching of participants?
a. when the required performance or response is too difficult for one person to do alone b. when the temporal sequence of experimental events could be confounded with the independent variable and influence the results c. when random selection of participants from the population is not possible or is impractical d. when participants are randomly selected from the population but not randomly assigned to groups
One of the key characteristics of a postindustrial society is __________
a. a rigid class structure b. that information is the organizing principle c. that it is primarily a technical society d. that it values inherited wealth over skill and education
The costs and benefits of government are unequally distributed among the states
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.