A citizen’s ability to hold democratic beliefs, including the acceptance that politics is about compromise, is called ______.
a. democratic engagement
b. democratic enlightenment
c. democratic pragmatism
d. democratic virtue
e. democratic citizenship
b. democratic enlightenment
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Which of the following statements is a definition of sampling error?
a) the difference in characteristics between the sample and the population sampled from b) the difference in amount of people between the sample and the population sampled from c) greatest when using simple random sampling than other sampling types d) larger when you have a larger sample
Historically, dramatic change in party identification is uncommon and is almost always a consequence of
A. a Supreme Court ruling. B. a change in the law. C. major upheaval. D. popular satisfaction with a government initiative. E. a change in the policy position of the president.
Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are sometimes grouped together and called ______.
a. weapons of mass confusion b. conventional weapons c. terror weapons d. weapons of mass destruction e. the axis of evil
An elitist argues that
A) many conflicting groups within the community have access to government officials and compete with one another in an effort to influence policy decisions. B) "the people" govern through political leaders who are nominated as candidates of political parties or who run as independents and are elected by the voters. C) powerful people prevent certain issues from ever reaching the public arena as they control the agenda, thus determining which public-policy questions will be debated or even considered. D) a pluralist system works best in large cities. E) only the masses of citizens are dedicated to democratic principles and hold a greater confidence in representative democracy.