In recent decades, party control of the House and Senate
a. has remained stable.
b. has seen both houses change party leadership.
c. has seen the House become nearly completely republican.
d. has seen the Senate overwhelmingly controlled by the democratic party.
B
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The _____ provides: "The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State."
a. Tenth Amendment b. Eleventh Amendment c. Twelfth Amendment d. Thirteenth Amendment
The non-equivalent comparison group design is a quasi-experimental design in which, for reasons of practicality, we cannot insure that the control and experimental groups are equivalent to each other when the experiment begins
The major interpretational difficulty imposed by this design is a. knowing whether the two groups are different from each other on the dependent measure once the experiment is complete. b. deciding how much each group has to gain on the posttest compared to the pretest to be sure that the differences are reliable. c. determining when we have collected enough data points to make a statement about the experiment's outcome. d. being sure that any differences between groups at the end of the experiment result from the independent variable's influence alone, and are not related to preexisting differences.
The president's party generally loses strength in midterm congressional elections
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The effects of horse-race journalism include all of the following EXCEPT this:
a. The media show politics as if politicians cared only about scoring victories off one another. b. The media report on politics as if it were a game of strategy and wit with no substance. c. The media help citizens to understand the issues. d. The media trivialize politics. e. The media ignore citizens’ concerns about politics.