Which of the following is a disadvantage of negative advertisements?
A) The more negative the television advertisements, the less likely they are to get free media coverage.
B) Candidates and their campaign managers avoid negative advertisements because they do not help the candidates.
C) Extreme ads may create sympathy for the candidate being attacked rather than support for the attacker, particularly when the charges against the candidate being attacked are not credible.
D) They are less likely than positive ads to grab the viewers' attention and make an impression.
E) They are less likely to focus on substantive political issues, and thus they do a poorer job of informing the voters about important campaign issues than positive ads do.
C
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a. It is not an elected body. b. The board members serve overlapping four-year terms. c. The board members are elected statewide. d. The senate's consent is not required to appoint the education commissioner.
Which of the following systems of government allows the central government to make laws that are directly applicable to member states, and those states can choose not to support the laws?
A. Unitary B. Federal C. Authoritarian D. Totalitarian E. Confederal
Under a patronage system, government employees are hired on the basis of personal friendships or favors
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Once enacted, laws do not go into effect by themselves, as was assumed by those in the (presumed) tradition of Woodrow Wilson, who discussed “_____ administration.”
A. automatic B. immediate C. mere D. Wilsonian