The positive aspect of partisanship is that it ______.
a. promotes cooperation among politicians
b. allows candidates to spend less time fund-raising and more time passing legislation
c. prevents either party from becoming too strong and dominant
d. keeps politicians honest and allows the best political ideas and policies to emerge
e. keeps political gridlock from occurring
d. keeps politicians honest and allows the best political ideas and policies to emerge
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a. 21; 18 b. 23; 18 c. 23; 21 d. 26; 21 e. 30; 21
Which of these is not one of the categories used by the authors of the text to classify interest groups?
a. economic groups b. spiritual groups c. artistic-recreational organizations d. public interest groups e. political groups
One way in which the president can exercise unilateral power on the domestic front is by issuing pardons. Which president was the only one who ever pardoned a previous president?
a. Richard Nixon b. Jimmy Carter c. Gerald Ford d. George H. W. Bush
The poll tax that was first imposed in Georgia in 1877 was a way to prohibit _____ from voting
A) farmers B) suffragette women C) white men D) disenfranchised blacks E) immigrants