______ is the term used to describe the high rate of imprisonment in United States.
a. Megaprisons
b. Supermax
c. Mass incarceration
d. Super incarceration
c. Mass incarceration
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The budgeting process in which budgets change in proportionally small amounts from year to year is called:
A. program planning. B. Total Quality Management. C. performance budgeting. D. incrementalism.
The concept of senatorial courtesy refers to the
A. Senate approving judges only if they belong to the same party that is in control of the Senate. B. practice of allowing senators to have the exclusive right to nominate candidates for the federal district courts in their state. C. practice of allowing members of the House to participate in the nomination process. D. practice of allowing senators to veto candidates for federal district courts in their state. E. Senate's deferring to the president and routinely approving his or her nominees.
Which of the following is a confrontational approach the president can take with regard to Congress?
a. Veto threats b. Cross-party coalitions c. Sending Congress draft administration bills d. State of the Union address
The process of gerrymandering refers to _________________
A) illegally tampering with votes B) increasing the size of a congressional district C) the concept of "one man, one vote" D) the drawing of congressional district boundaries to favor a particular political party or group E) reducing the size of the House of Representatives