Generating newsworthy events for the media to report on for free in order to bolster public opinion in favor or against a public policy is known as

a. mobilization of bias.
b. earned media.
c. astroturf campaigns.
d. grassroots mobilization.


b

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is an example of

a. A regional IGO b. A functional IGO c. A global IGO d. An international NGO e. A functional NGO

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The Republican Growth and Opportunity Project report has also been labeled as the ______.

a. “demographic outline” b. “autopsy report” c. “postelection analysis” d. “Hispanic growth projection”

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Which term refers to the estimated number of people who are old enough to vote?

A) ?median age population B) ?voting-age population C) generational replacement D) voter turnout E) voting-eligible population

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In collecting data in correlational research, it is important to minimize which two effects?

A) The tendency of investigators to find what they expect to find and to influence the behavior of participants B) The politeness effect and the social desirability effect C) The Hawthorne effect and the social desirability effect D) Experimenter reactivity and the Hawthorne effect

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