When voters select representatives who reflect and share their policy preferences, identities, interests, and lived experiences, they are also transmitting information to members of Congress that political scientist Richard F. Fenno, Jr., describes as ______.
a. home style
b. constituent identification
c. representative delegation
d. partisan collaboration
a. home style
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SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Having a significant number of women in legislative bodies seems to ______.
a. place more focus on social policies b. have little effect on the agendas being pursued c. affect decision-making style d. place less focus on economic policies
How does North Korea explain its claim to be a democracy despite banning opposition parties and free elections?
a. The definition of democracy is different in the Korean language. b. The communist government does not claim that North Korea is a democracy. c. The government bans all use of information technology so the people cannot learn about true democracies. d. The government claims to know what the people truly need better than the people themselves. e. The government claims that Communism is a form of democracy.
Selecting government employees based solely on their political support is characteristic of ________
A. bureaucratic systems B. merit systems C. patronage systems D. affirmative action systems
For a given poll, a professional polling firm states that it has "95 percent confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is plus or minus four percentage points." What is the firm trying to say by claiming "95 percent confidence"?
A) There is a 95 percent chance that the poll is off by four points or more. B) There is a 5 percent chance that the poll is off by four points or more. C) There is a 95 percent chance that the poll is off by five points or more. D) There is a 4 percent chance that the poll is off by five points or more. E) There is a 5 percent chance that the poll is off by ninety-five points or more.