Judicial decision making differs from legislative and executive decision making in all of the following ways EXCEPT ________
A. courts must wait until a case is brought before them before making any policy decision
B. courts rarely make comprehensive policy pronouncements
C. courts are rarely seen as objective, lending higher prestige to the other two branches
D. interest groups can access the court only through legal procedures, whereas other informal tactics are at their disposal in the legislative and executive branches
ANSWER: C
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