When the Justice Department objected to a Texas voter ID law in 2012, it did so by comparing the fee for the state-mandated ID card to be a(n) __________
a. illegal ID check
b. head tax
c. violation of the Help America Vote Act
d. poll tax
d
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What was Mayor Richard J. Daley's strategy for getting the city of Chicago to run efficiently?
a. Appointing top-quality bureaucrats to run city agencies and to make sure services were delivered. b. Requesting and receiving millions in federal funds to build the city's infrastructure. c. Giving patronage jobs to relatives of members of the press, so that they would not write about city problems. d. Overspending the city budget every year, and leaving his successor with a huge amount of debt.
A(n) _____ would be most useful in helping us try and determine a cause-and-effect relationship
A) collective action problem B) level of analysis C) norm D) platform E) theory
When researchers study federalism in practice (de facto federalism), what measure do they use to estimate how centralized a country is?
A. The effective number of parties. B. The central government’s share of tax revenue. C. The number of regional subunits in the country.
Why do lawmakers make speeches on the Senate floor even if few of their colleagues are present?
a. The speeches lawmakers deliver have a direct effect on their committee assignments. b. The sponsors of a bill are required to speak on its behalf regardless of attendance in the chamber. c. Their statements are placed on the record, which allows the public to see the rationale behind congressional decisions. d. They hope to appear on C-SPAN, which shows only the member who is speaking, not those in attendance in the chamber. e. They want speeches to which they can refer to during reelection campaigns.