The way that British colonizers restructured Indian society to adopt British customs, food, and dress is an example of the process of ______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
assimilation
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In the case of Sherbert v. Verner (1963), the Supreme Court applied the __________ test, and found in favor of the Seventh-Day Adventist who refused to work on Saturdays
A) prior restraint B) compelling state interest C) good faith exception D) rational basis E) bad tendency.
The notion of a political subculture may suggest that
A. different groups in society have different attitudes and values. B. presidential systems and parliamentary systems are fundamentally the same. C. the role of courts is to interpret written law. D. legislatures effectively represent all groups in society.
Which of the following differentiates a pluralist and a corporatist pattern?
A. Under corporatism there is a free market in interest group formation as opposed to under pluralism. B. Under pluralism, the government centrally organizes societal interests, while under corporatism, the state plays relatively little role in fostering or impeding interest group formation. C. Under pluralism, collective action takes the top-down approach, while corporatism promotes the grassroots mobilization of people. D. The pluralistic pattern requires that interest groups have institutionalized channels of representation in the state as opposed to the corporatist pattern which encourages interest groups to mobilize and organize societal interests freely. E. While in the pluralist pattern, interest groups form from within civil society, in the corporatist pattern the state influences interest group formation.
Interest groups and other organizations tend to become less democratic over time and to fall under the dominance of a small group of leaders. This tendency is referred to as the:
A. intensity problem. B. iron law of oligarchy. C. rule of political efficacy. D. law of diminishing returns.