When Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, what role of the press were they fulfilling?
A) engaging in political socialization
B) coordinating public actions
C) interpreting developments in news
D) providing essential information for informed political decisions
E) conducting investigative reporting
E
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a. equality b. justice c. individualism d. property e. faith
Who argued that the chances of a revolution in Europe were diminishing with the emergence of a small class of relatively wealthy workers and that Marxism had to be adapted to fit new circumstances?
a. Stalin b. Lenin c. Trotsky d. Mao
The Pew Research Center surveyed 38 nations to determine world opinion about the United States (see the box feature "Compared to What?"). In which of the following nations were ratings of the United States particularly high?
a. Argentina b. China c. Egypt d. Israel
If the state of Utah were to use an interrupted time-series design to study the effects of raising its speed limit to 65 mph, what type of confounding variables might present a problem?
A) Confounding due to selection and cohort effects. B) Confounding due to history and instrumentation. C) Confounding due to maturation and testing. D) Confounding due to regression to the mean