Which of the following best describes Texas's efforts to address contemporary public policy challenges facing the state?
A) Texas actively addresses those public policy challenges that are related to education, the environment, and health and human services.
B) Texas is frequently a leader among large states in addressing contemporary public policy challenges.
C) Texas is generally more proactive than reactive in addressing contemporary public policy challenges.
D) Texas has addressed contemporary public policy challenges irresponsibly by using its immense oil revenues at an unsustainably fast pace.
E) Texas has often been reluctant to play an active public policy role and often addresses challenges only when
E
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The provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits discrimination in hiring is
a. Title II. c. Title VII. b. Title V. d. Title IX.
Woodrow Wilson embraced all of these ideas EXCEPT a. National selfdetermination would be the key to humanity's political salvation. b. If peoples were given a choice of government, they would universally choose democracy. c. If all countries were democratic, the moral force of world public opinion would be a powerful deterrent towar
d. It is possible to trust in the morality and common sense of the ordinary person. e. The nation-state is rapidly becoming an obsolete form of political society.
Which statement best describes how representative democracy relates to direct democracy?
a. In a representative democracy, a smaller group of people make decisions than in a direct democracy. b. In a direct democracy, there is more concern for political equality and fairness than in a representative democracy. c. In a direct democracy, traditional procedures play a more important role than they do in a representative democracy. d. In a representative democracy, rational-legal legitimacy and the rule of law are stronger than in a direct democracy.
Descriptive representation is ______.
a. the idea that an elected body should demographically mirror its population b. when candidates carefully explain what they will do if they are elected c. important to constituents who want to keep tabs on their members of Congress d. practiced much more frequently in the United States than in other democracies e. the idea that one’s political power should expand in relation to time spent in office