A decline in party loyalties that reduces long-term party commitment is known as
A) dealignment.
B) divided government.
C) realignment.
D) devolution.
E) ticket splitting.
A
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The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995:
A. restricted lobbyists from engaging in direct lobbying. B. exempted all lobbyists fromregistering with the clerk of the House. C. exempted lobbyists from disclosingthe name of the agency or chamber of Congress they contacted. D. required lobbyists to report their clients. E. increased the tax imposed on lobbyists.
Under conditions of international anarchy, democratic and nondemocratic governments face similar pressures to survive and tend to behave similarly in terms of foreign policy. This is an argument
a. consistent with liberalism. b. consistent with realism. c. consistent with arguments stressing human security over military security. d. None of the above is correct.
A major factor in the elite approach explanation of
policymaking is: A) the effective conspiracies among people who hold power. B) the apathy of most people regarding policy decisions. C) the shared interests of the elite and the mass. D) the fact that the elite is dependent of the mass.
Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington suggests that
A) political society is based on the authority granted to the sovereign by divine right. B) all individuals have a right to a more or less equal part of the material goods that society produces. C) ethnic and cultural groups should maintain their identity within the larger society and respect one another's differences. D) today's immigrants lack the Anglo-Protestant values that constitute the American identity. E) continued immigration would undercut the bargaining power of workers.