Across all fifty states, the most common method for selecting state Supreme Court judges is
A. Missouri plan.
B. nonpartisan elections.
C. partisan elections.
D. appointment by governor.
Answer: A
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a. Legislative mandate b. Reduced availability of federal funding c. The government reaching its maximum allowed tax rate d. Serving a limited population or area e. Requirement for multi-jurisdictional coverage
The idea that the unresponsiveness of the federal government to Hurricane Katrina was because most of the victims were black could be called a(n) __________.
A. critique of the incompetence of FEMA B. unfair blaming of nature for the disaster C. pluralist interpretation of government inactivity D. belief in an elite conspiracy
The term political economy refers to
a. how much a country spends on elections. b. how a country promotes ecologically sound ways to modernize the economy and raise the standard of living. c. how states and political processes affect the economy and how the economy in turn affects a country's political processes. d. the global economic system. e. the ratio of GDP compared to the percentage of voting citizens.
One of the "Topic-in-Country" countries highlighted in the text was ranked last (seventy-two out of seventy-two) by the 2007 A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index when it measured overall degree of globalization. Which country was it?
a. Russia b. Brazil c. Iran d. Nigeria e. France