In the context of racial and ethnic minorities, discuss the voting behaviors of Hispanic and Asian Americans.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. A shared racial or ethnic identity can be one of the strongest influences on voting behavior, second only to partisan loyalty. Latino voters have supported the Democrats by margins of about two to one, with some exceptions: older Cuban Americans are strongly Republican. In contrast to support from African Americans, Hispanic support for the Democrats is only modestly greater than what has been predicted based on low average income. This fact might encourage the minority of Republicans who have sought to win Latino votes by such measures as immigration reform. Most Asian Americans favor the Democrats. Vietnamese Americans, however, are strongly Republican.
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a. consumer preferences can shift suddenly. b. in human systems, people routinely try to gain political advantage precisely by acting unpredictably. c. nonstate actors differ from states and are less likely to behave rationally. d. information technology has increased the amount of information available to policymakers. e. ordinary people are more able to participate in global networks.
What is the central difference between the political responses to the crack epidemic of the 1980s and the heroin epidemic of the 21st century?
A. Medically assisted treatment for crack addiction in the 1980s was scientifically unexplored, while today the government is better equipped to respond medicinally to substance abuse in rural areas with higher access to medical care. B. Politicians in the 1980s faced many systematic roadblocks to implementing treatments for substance abuse among minorities, while today there is an easier path to medicinal responses to drug epidemics by state and local governments. C. Systematic responses to substance abuse in communities of color during the 1980s were focused on criminal punishment and harsh sentencing, while modern politicians implement medicinal remedies in response to widespread addiction in rural areas. D. The overall political response to the crack epidemic of the 1980s focused on the economic burden of providing treatment to crack addicts, while modern politicians can more easily secure funding for widely available treatment of heroin addiction.
Automatic upward adjustments in entitlement spending are _____
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Holding factors such as temperature, lighting, and seating arrangement constant during experimental testing supports which of the following characteristics of scientific research?
a. operationalism b. control c. discoverability d. replication