Why don't people participate in politics? What variables are associated with nonparticipation?
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Poverty and lack of education can produce a reduced skill set, including language deficits, a smaller knowledge base, a lower sense of efficacy, fewer chances to be contacted or mobilized, and/or less disposable time to participate in activities. These disparities also surface among ethnic/racial groupings. Those who feel as if they will never be heard will hardly waste their time trying to voice their opinions, and continuing disengagement leads to even greater disparities in skills and resources apportioned to them, and high levels of frustration and political apathy.
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How would bipartisanship be beneficial to the processes within Congress?
What will be an ideal response?
The supporters of recent research using the civic culture approach
would suggest that if someone wanted to predict the likelihood of Iraq becoming a stable democracy, the most useful information to know would be: a. its GDP per capita. b. what percentage of its citizens hold democratic values supportive of democratic institutions. c. what percentage of its citizens have self-expression values. d. what percentage of its citizens belong to voluntary organizations.
The __________, which includes the voters who identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans and who tend to vote for the candidates of their party, has shifted in recent decades
a. party activity b. party in the government c. party in the electorate d. party as apparatus
The equal protection clause of the __________ prohibits states from denying to any person-in other words, not just citizens-equal protection under the law
A) Fourteenth Amendment B) Fifteenth Amendment C) Sixteenth Amendment D) Seventeenth Amendment E) Eighteenth Amendment