Clientelism is the practice by which a particular group receives disproportionate policy benefits or political favors from a political patron, usually at the expense of the larger society. In Nigeria, patrons are typically linked to clients by any of the following ties EXCEPT
a. ethnicity.
b. culture.
c. religion.
d. ideology.
e. language.
d
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a. revenue surplus b. penalty c. taxincrease d. subsidy
What is cyberterrorism?
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Which of the following has been a problem for the Supreme Court and law enforcement when it comes to obscenity?
A. The Court is split 5.4 on whether obscenity is protected by the Constitution. B. The Court has not been able to make a distinction between sexually explicit images and sexually explicit text. C. The Court has not adequately defined obscenity and drafted objective standards that enable judges and police to distinguish the merely pornographic or sexually explicit from the truly obscene. D. The Court has adequately suppressed pornography that appears in the form of the press, such as magazines at convenience stores.
Spoken presentations by attorneys to the appellate court laying out the reasons why the court should rule in his or her client's favor are known as
A) affirmation action. B) briefs. C) criminal defenses. D) dissenting opinions. E) oral arguments.