The sudden increase in American foreign aid to counteract the 1984-1985 Ethiopian famine once the American media started to report on it is a classic example of the effect of ______.

a. attack-dog journalism
b. agenda setting
c. media malaise
d. the perception gap
e. selective perception


b. agenda setting

Political Science

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What will be an ideal response?

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The net effect of the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden was

a. reversing its ruling in Marbury v. Madison. b. protecting the policy responsibilities of the states via the Tenth Amendment. c. restructuring the meaning of the Seventeenth Amendment. d. creating a powerful precedent that allowed future national policy to develop free of the constraints of state prerogatives.

Political Science

Many early activists for women’s rights were also active in the ______ movement—the movement to end the practice of slavery.

a. abolitionist b. protectivist c. segregationist d. collectivist

Political Science

Why does an interviewer use probes?

What will be an ideal response?

Political Science