Interest-group politics in the United States has a pronounced upper-class bias because:

What kind of demographic voting blocs would you expect to emerge in elections about delayed eligibility for Social Security retirement benefits and in elections to increase taxes to fund cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients? Why?

What will be an ideal response?

Which issue did the Great Compromise not address?

a. Apportionment based on both population and equal representation b. Selection of an executive through an electoral college c. Requiring all bills dealing with taxing or spending to originate in the lower house d. What constituted a person for purposes of representation and taxation

Which of the following is NOT one of the four major things that balance of power can refer to?

a. The balance between a state's soft and hard power b. Any distribution of power c. A theory describing a more or less automatic equilibration of power in the international system. d. A policy of supporting less powerful states to prevent any one state from gaining predominance e. A description of multipolar historical cases

Aaron Wildavsky's "two presidencies theory" posits that _____________

A) the president can use the "bully pulpit" to communicate policies and generate support B) the senate would exert a strong influence over the nation's foreign policy C) a unitary chief executive can respond quickly and forcefully to sudden changes D) separation of the power to command from the power to fund the military was to check the war power from being abused E) the president has more power in foreign affairs than in the domestic sphere