Identify and explain how cultural detachment affects mass public opinion.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify how cultural detachment in the United States stems from its geographic distance from other major powers and ideas regarding American exceptionalism. Answers should also identify how this detachment has led to major deficiencies in understanding global events and foreign policy issues in the mass public.
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The fact that some people in the United States may not have a telephone or only have a cell phone or refuse to participate in polls illustrates what about scientific polling?
A. Pollsters can overcome any problems with the sample to make sure the results are not biased. B. Nothing really because these people constitute a very small part of the population. C. No poll is completely free of the biases they introduce in drawing the sample. D. There is really no such thing as scientific polling and these problems make polls unreliable.
Explain why the state's comptroller of public accounts has such an influential role in the legislative process.
What will be an ideal response?
The bureaucracy draws support from the public, Congress, and the executive branch
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following questions is NOT one that needs to be asked by a critical reader of party platforms?
a. Whose platform is it, and what do you know about that party’s basic political positions? b. Do opinion polls show this platform was supported by voters at the time it was written? c. Who is the audience? d. What statements reflect values, and which are statements of fact? e. What is your reaction to the platform?