Which of the following statements about national grants is true?
A. To supply state and local governments with revenue is the most important purpose of national grants.
B. The purpose of national grants is to maximize the growth of national agencies.
C. National grants establish maximum national standards for such things as highways and clean air.
D. The four types of national grants are always combined within a single program area.
E. The national government often mixes and matches the grant types to accomplish its goals.
E
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Which best describes what Chinese Communist leaders learned from the turmoil in Eastern European communist countries in 1989?
a. Allowing protesters to blow off steam was much more effective than trying to crush them. b. Travel restrictions were necessary to keep people from spreading discontent after seeing the freedoms and prosperity of the West. c. Protests could bring down Communist governments and without a significant show of force the Chinese Communist Party could suffer the same fate. d. Allowing citizens to visit other countries gave them a sense of freedom and greatly diffused discontent. e. Acting on the demands made by protesters, rather than just letting them blow off steam, would help diffuse discontent and preserve Communist Party power.
The first major global environmental treaty is the
a. Geneva Conventions. b. Maastricht Treaty. c. Montreal Protocol. d. Kyoto Protocol.
Which of these people is likely to have the most difficulty operating freely in an illiberal democracy?
a. A worker with advanced technology skills b. An entrepreneur who wants a government subsidy c. An activist who wants to start a new political party d. A bureaucrat who wants to reduce wasteful expenditures
Which of the following best describes the concept that the existence of one government program may produce the need for additional programs?
A. analogous agenda setting B. stages agenda setting C. spillover agenda setting D. mountain climber syndrome