The French government's creation of a General Planning Commission to manage their capitalist economy is an example of
a. autogestion.
b. cohabitation.
c. dirigisme.
d. grandeur.
e. pantouflage.
c
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In terms of the proportion of women in the lower chamber of the national legislature, among world democracies the U.S. ranks
A) moderately high. D) very high. B) about average. E) the very lowest. C) quite low.
Which of the following is NOT one of the governmental challenges facing the next generation of state and local elected officials?
a. Tackling traditional local and state government problems more successfully. b. Figuring out how to raise more campaign funds. c. Inventing a new type of politics adequate for metropolitan cities and a global society. d. Solving fiscal crises while rethinking priorities and cutting waste.
What can be concluded from the fact that such a large proportion of the American public identifies as conservative?
a. The American people have repudiated traditional forms of individualism. b. Opinion distributions in the United States are becoming increasingly unimodal. c. The Republican Party is likely to hold control of Congress for decades to come. d. Many people have an ideological identification that goes against their position on the issues.
What did the Supreme Court mean when it declared during World War II that race was a "suspect classification"?
a. Any person of a different race, and particularly Japanese Americans, should be deemed suspicious until they could prove innocence. b. Any law using race as a basis should be suspected of being an unconstitutional classification, but the burden would be on the one challenging the law to prove it. c. Any classification based on race would undergo suspect scrutiny during Supreme Court review, and the rule maker would have to prove it was used because of a compelling public interest. – d. Any local, state, or national law using racial criteria was presumed to be unconstitutional unless it could be shown to be both necessary and compelling.