Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationship between per capita income and income inequality?

a. Countries with the greatest wealth tend to have substantial income inequality.
b. Countries with the greatest wealth tend to have less income inequality.
c. Countries with the greatest wealth tend to have more income inequality than nations with growing wealth.
d. None of the above is true.


Answer: b

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a. Issuing executive orders b. Evaluating potential appointees c. Compiling and writing budget recommendations d. Lobbying legislators, administrators and local governments e. Coordinating the governor's schedule of ceremonial and official duties

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Most scholarly research has found that political action committees

a. virtually control policy outcomes through their activities. b. easily circumvent the policy preferences of political constituents. c. exert, at most, only a modest effect on a legislator’s decisions. d. are more influential on legislators than are party affiliation, ideology, or state and district interests.

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Why do liberals believe people are poor?

a) Because there are not sufficient jobs paying a decent wage b) Because poor people have an inability to defer gratification c) Because poor people lack intelligence and necessary job skills d) Because the market generates as many jobs as are needed

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Pollsters who structure a sample so that it is representative of the characteristics of a target population are using what type of sampling?

A. qualitative sampling B. stratified sampling C. quota sampling D. random sampling E. quantitative sampling

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