The use of hard money to support or oppose a federal candidate but coming from an origination that does not directly coordinate its efforts with its candidates is:
a) independent expenditures
b) Federal election committee
c) FECA
Answer: c) FECA
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Which of the following is not one of the empirical regularities of the democratic peace?
a. Democracies that are major powers are more constrained than democracies that are minor powers. b. Transitional democracies are less constrained than full-fledged democracies. c. Democracies make a greater effort to win a war than nondemocracies. d. Wealthy democracies are more constrained and less likely to initiate a war that less affluent democracies.
In response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, the elite in the United States responded by enacting the PATRIOT act which __________________
a. restrictedfreedom in the name of protecting democracy. b. promotedfreedom in order to irritate Osama bin Laden. c. ejectedterrorist sympathizers from the elite. d. triedto reverse a loss of mass confidence in government.
Interest groups represent a peculiar irony of democracy
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
As president, Andrew Jackson supported a political philosophy of ________ which emphasized the needs of the common person
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).