It has been increasingly difficult for the parties to work together in Congress in recent years because of ______.
a. the decreasing willingness of members to follow their party leaders
b. an increasing number of members who refuse to identify with either party
c. increasing party polarization and hyperpartisanship
d. the public’s decreasing attention to the actions of Congress
c. increasing party polarization and hyperpartisanship
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The New Deal coalition was not preceded by a third-party movement.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A person on the right side of the ideological spectrum would be least likely to support:
A. limited citizen participation. B. progressive taxes. C. distributive policies. D. regressive taxes.
The prevalence of candidate committees tends to _________ the role of political parties
A.) decrease B.) increase C.) reinforce D.) complement
According to democratic theory, the most important factor in determining voter choice in an election should be
A) believability and reliability of the candidate. B) party identification. C) polling results. D) amount of media coverage. E) past performance and proposed policies.