Identify the three faces of political parties in the United States.
What will be an ideal response?
American political parties have three faces, or spheres of operation. The three components include the party in the electorate (all those who identify with or tend to support the party), the party organization (the formal staff apparatus, at all levels of government), and the party in government (the partisan identifications of elected leaders in local, county, state, and federal government).
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One effect of fiscal federalism on Sunbelt states is that most of those states:
A. send more money to the federal government in taxes than they get back in federal expenditures and grants. B. send less money to the federal government than they get back. C. send about the same amount of money to the federal government as they get back. D. have become less concerned than previously about whether they get back as much as they send.
Problem identification, the second subphase of agenda setting, considers solutions to fix the difficulties raised in alternative specification.
A. True B. False
What inspired the more aggressive form of journalism known as muckraking in the early 1900s?
A. a desire to increase objectivity B. the need to sell newspapers C. a fear that partisan leanings were tainting news D. the failure to investigate thoroughly E. sympathy for the plight of ordinary citizens
U.S. Supreme Court cases have moved abortion battles to
a. schools b. states. c. federal courts. d. streets.