The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 has ______.
a. been a step toward counteracting negative behavior
b. successfully protected those who stepped forward to point out waste and fraud in the bureaucracy
c. offset the pressure to protect programs and budgets
d. reduced substantially the mistakes made by the bureaucracy
e. worked as its supporters had hoped it would
a. been a step toward counteracting negative behavior
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_________ is the practice of having a participant’s information known only to the researchers and not publicly associated with their responses
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
How can interest groups play a helpful role in democracies?
a. They can advocate for government policies that most people oppose. b. They can serve as vehicles for political participation. c. They can accomplish things that would be better left to individuals. d. They can elect candidates as official representatives of the groups.
Which of the following amendments gave women the right to vote?
a. Thirteenth b. Fourteenth c. Fifteenth d. Nineteenth
The comparative method
a. seeks to explain political outcomes by looking at the effects of individual political actors and gaining an understanding of their decision-making process. b. combines aspects of most similar and most different studies by looking at sets of similar cases, each set coming from a particular region, and then comparing the findings across different regions. c. is a research design which seeks to understand the effects of a particular dependent variable by examining a small number of cases. d. is a project that examines a particular research question in a case that exhibits characteristics very different from a generally-known pattern. Understanding why such an "outlier" exists may give researchers new insight into the topic of their study. e. is a logical process in which existing general laws are used to explain specific events.