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a. tend to favor policies that yield concentrated benefits and impose dispersed costs
b. tend to oppose policies that yield dispersed benefits and impose concentrated costs
c. improve his or her chances of re-election by being responsive to special-interest groups
d. all of the above


Answer: d. all of the above

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