While the United States has had several minor parties, only the two major parties have much of a chance to win elections. What features of the U.S. political system contribute to the dominance of two parties?
a. multimember districts and a proportional voting system
b. single-member districts and a nonpartisan blanket primary system
c. multimember districts and a winner-take-all voting system
d. single-member districts and a winner-take-all voting system
d
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Casting a vote is making a prediction about the future
a. that electing one particular candidate will produce a better outcome. b. that one candidate will implement the policies you want exactly as you would like. c. that your preferred candidate is going to win. d. that if you do not vote, your preferred candidate is going to lose.
In the nonequivalent control-group design,
A) the more similar the natural groups are to each other, the more confidence we can have in causal conclusions. B) the more dissimilar the natural groups are, the more confidence we can have in causal conclusions. C) the natural groups must be tested to assure equivalence on the dependent measure. D) the natural groups must be tested to assure equivalence on the independent variable.