Which expenditure item is larger for state governments than for local governments?
a. Police protection
b. Utilities
c. Higher education
d. Public welfare
d. Public welfare
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As Madison points out in Federalist No. 10, since the states and the national government combine the citizenry's preferences into different groupings, the two levels of government do which of the following?
A. They usually adopt almost identical policies to address the same problem. B. They are always responsive to the same coalitions of people. C. They may adopt different, even opposite, policies to address the same problem. D. They operate in an unequal way; the states can leave all of the difficult decision-making about policy to the federal government.
It is hard to get rid of the filibuster because ______.
a. it would require a constitutional amendment b. both Republicans and Democrats want the opportunity to use it when they are in the minority c. the president would veto legislation eliminating the filibuster d. the public favors keeping it e. the Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary procedure to eliminate it is unconstitutional
When measuring behavior, researchers want the variability in the numbers they assign to participants' responses to
a. be as small as possible b. be as large as possible c. correspond to the variability in participants' responses d. be unrelated to variables they are investigating e. be affected by their manipulation of the dependent variable
The __________ allows for the trial of enemy combatants before military commissions
a. Sixth Amendment b. Fourth Amendment c. USA PATRIOT Act d. Military Commissions Act