Lobbying is an activity that refers to _____
a. buying favors in Austin
b. efforts to influence policymakers face-to-face
c. citizens voting on election day
d. "twisting the arms" of legislators
e. bribery and corruption
b
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a. open-ended b. forced alternative c. multiple choice d. Likert scales
In what way are social and fiscal conservatives in Texas at odds over how to deal with crime?
a. Social conservatives want to punish criminals harshly, but fiscal conservatives object to the expense of long prison sentences. b. Fiscal conservatives prefer alternative sentencing to avoid the high cost of building and maintaining prisons. c. Both social and fiscal conservatives believe that more money should be spent on punishing criminals, but they disagree on how to spend the money. d. Social conservatives want to punish criminals harshly, but fiscal conservatives object to the expense of long prison sentences and prefer alternative sentencing to avoid the high cost of building and maintaining prisons. e. All of these are ways in which social and fiscal conservatives are at odds.
A projection of the world that retains directional accuracy, places Europe at the center, and uses two-thirds of the map to represent the northern half of the world is called a(n)
a. orthographic projection. b. Mercator projection. c. Peter's projection. d. world-time view.
How do we know that the opinions of people who call in to radio talk shows are not typical of most Americans?
A. As a sample, they are unrepresentative of the whole population. B. As a sample, they are perfectly random. C. As a sample, they lack intensity. D. As a sample, their opinions are ill formed.