What have scholars discovered about voting based on a number of different field experiments?
A. telephone calls stressing the importance of voting increased turnout the most
B. television advertising about the closeness of the election had the greatest effect on turnout
C. personal visits combined with a message about the closeness of the election increased turnout the most
D. Americans have become so apathetic that there is very little that can be done to increase voter turnout above 50%
Answer: C
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a. refuse to engage in policymaking, leaving the task entirely to Congress. b. aggressively use the threat of the veto to get what they want. c. dominate the policymaking process by forcing Congress to adopt the president's policy agenda. d. recruit lobbyists and interest groups to pursue the president's agenda in Congress. e. attempt to build coalitions and create a political climate favorable to the president's policy agenda.
Why did the Founders call for special ratifying conventions in the states rather than ask state legislatures to ratify the Constitution?
a. The Founders knew that they could get unanimous consent for the Constitution only through such a tactic. b. The Constitution placed many prohibitions on state power, which the Founders feared would prevent legislatures from ratifying the document. c. State legislators were not as educated as members of the ratifying conventions and would not have understood Federalist arguments. d. The Articles of Confederation required such a procedure if a new governing document were to be proposed.
The Budget Impoundment and Control Act ______.
A. created a unified spending process by combining the taxing and spending committees in each chamber B. allowed Congress to override presidential vetoes of budgets with a simple majority vote C. required Congress to consider the President's budget that presented a unified statement of government revenue and agency spending requests to promote greater fiscal responsibility D. was designed to force members to vote on explicit levels of taxes, expenditures, and deficits so members would have to take direct responsibility for fiscal consequences of many separate decisions
A general election is a regularly scheduled election to choose__________
A) mayors B) senators C) governors D) sheriffs E) federal justices