Philip E. Converse found that ______.

a. elites serve as models for mass behavior
b. masses do not learn from elites
c. elites filter political knowledge to masses
d. mass behavior lacks a level of education


b. masses do not learn from elites

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Civil Liberties Issues Decided by the Supreme Court in 2014, the Supreme Court found that requiring Hobby Lobby to provide employee medical insurance that pays for contraceptives __________. a. does not violate the family-owned company's first amendment rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act b. violates the family-owned company's first amendment rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act c. does not violate the family-owned company's constitutional right to privacy d. violates the family-owned company's constitutional right to privacy

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Economic structuralism and liberalism agree that

a. free markets, if left to themselves, reduce economic inequalities. b. international trade is a zero-sum game. c. substate actors, such as corporations and economic classes, are the important actors. d. distributive issues related to trade are a major issue.

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When durable changes occur in the coalition of voters who support each political party, we call that

a. evolution. b. realignment. c. pressure politics. d. democratization. e. moderation.

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The primordial perspective on social identity argues that the main source of one’s identity:

a. stems from a biological need to be part of group and is molded very early in one’s life b. is the result of social factors that change frequently throughout one’s life c. all human characteristics can be traced back to the species’ primordial stages d. the political structures of the society one is born into

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