Where Congress has failed in recent years regarding climate change policy, who has succeeded in implementing effective policy?
A. the EPA and local, state, and city governments
B. various bureaucratic institutions at the federal level
C. the Supreme Court, through landmark decisions on environmental policy
D. small businesses and large corporations that have funded and furthered environmental initiatives in the wake of government failure
A. the EPA and local, state, and city governments
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Which of the following statements is NOT reflective of the multifunctional nature of Texas county governments?
A) Counties serve as sub-units of state government, helping state government provide administrative services throughout the state. B) Counties operate as locally elected governmental bodies, performing many strictly local functions. C) Counties provide services to their citizens, such as holding elections, providing public health services, and registering automobiles, on behalf of the state. D) Local public services provided by the county include public safety, building and maintaining roads, and building and maintaining jails. E) Counties provide public education to their citizens from kindergarten through grade 12.
In the traditional form of international politics, how would people in a society put pressure on a government that is not their own?
a. They would ask their own government, through regular domestic politics, to talk to the other government through regular international politics. b. They would contact the target state directly through protest or advocacy groups. c. They would contact similar-minded individuals in the citizenry of the target government and influence them to seek change through their regular domestic political process. d. They would put pressure on the subunits of their own government, which would contact the subunits of the target government and try to convince them to influence that state’s policies.
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense called for ______.
a. negotiation with Great Britain b. independence c. military action against Native Americans d. a Third Continental Congress
What was the Little Entente?
a. A resuscitation of the Triple Entente among France, Great Britain, and Russia prior to World War I b. A series of alliances between France and Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia c. A temporary alliance between Great Britain and France in the late 1930s d. A series of alliances between France and Italy