Which of the following is NOT a potential effect of South Africa's list proportional representation electoral system?
a. Parties have a tendency to adopt policies that will appeal to a large segment of the electorate.
b. Parliament tends to be unduly deferential to the executive.
c. Candidates don't run on their personal characteristics but rather their party affiliation.
d. Party loyalty of members of parliament is high.
e. Two parties are likely to be dominant.
e
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a. majoritarianism b. constitutionalism c. federalism d. libertarianism
A table of random numbers or a random-number generator program is used in
A) choosing samples. B) identifying participants' numbers during an experiment. C) statistical testing procedures. D) matching participants for matched random assignment.
Explain what grants-in-aid are and why the system that grew up around them was so attractive to state officials.
What will be an ideal response?
Public goods are defined as
A) goods enjoyed simultaneously by a group, as opposed to a private good that must be divided up to be shared. B) goods paid for with public funds. C) goods sold on the public market. D) all goods sold to the public. E) All of the above