Which of the following is not a component of the military–industrial complex?
a. The Pentagon lobbies Congress to increase the defense budget.
b. Defense contractors lobby congressional committees for contracts.
c. The president lobbies Congress to expand the executive branch’s war powers.
d. Congressional representatives are incentivized by economic and political gains to support industries in their home districts.
c. The president lobbies Congress to expand the executive branch’s war powers.
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In the Swiss case, one of the greatest weaknesses of the referendum is that
b. too many uneducated people participate. c. not enough educated people participate. d. too many people in general participate. e. that the voter turnout is on average below 10 percent
The authors note that reinvention and the focus on managerialist government have raised concerns that
a. there is not enough emphasis on entrepreneurship in government. b. citizen participation in civic society is too widespread. c. business values have overshadowed the ethic of citizenship. d. customer satisfaction needs to be of a higher priority for government.
Political scientists see institutions as
a. organizational arrangements. b. lacking official rules. c. sets of unwritten norms. d. often irrelevant to the reality of how government is conducted. e. important, but too problematic to study.
The long-serving chief justice that established the principle of judicial review was
A. Benjamin Cardozo. B. Hugo Black. C. Clarence Thomas. D. John Marshall. E. Charles Evans Hughes.