Which of the following conditions would eliminate the free-rider problem?
a. if participation in an interest group were mandatory
b. if members were allowed to vote on matters of concern to the interest group
c. if the leaders of an interest group were able to set the group's priorities
d. if an interest group focused on providing benefits to society as a whole
a
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The essence of supply-side economics is that
A) government spending should be used to "prime the pump" and aid economic recovery. B) industry should be centrally coordinated to ensure a steady supply of necessary goods. C) taxes should be cut to stimulate investment, and government regulation of business should be decreased. D) government should tax heavily and redistribute the money in an equitable fashion. E) business should be forced by government to allow inventories of goods to grow, thereby reducing costs.
Most social welfare policies are ______.
a. entitlement programs b. regulatory policies c. private policies d. redistributive policies e. distributive policies
What did the Supreme Court mean when it declared during World War II that race was a "suspect classification"?
a. Any person of a different race, and particularly Japanese Americans, should be deemed suspicious until they could prove innocence. b. Any law using race as a basis should be suspected of being an unconstitutional classification, but the burden would be on the one challenging the law to prove it. c. Any classification based on race would undergo suspect scrutiny during Supreme Court review, and the rule maker would have to prove it was used because of a compelling public interest. – d. Any local, state, or national law using racial criteria was presumed to be unconstitutional unless it could be shown to be both necessary and compelling.