Individual legislators' trading votes among themselves is known as
a. apportionment.
b. appropriations.
c. logrolling.
d. bonding.
e. general obligations.
C
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A. delay the acquisition of costly new hardware. B. overestimate costs and acquire new hardware as quickly as possible. C. pad the contracts with various nonessential items. D. underestimate the probable costs. E. All of these are correct.
What does the incidence of “ticket-splitting” tell us about the strength of party identification?
a. Increased ticket-splitting indicates that voters are less attached to their parties, being more easily influenced by other factors. b. Increased ticket-splitting indicates that voters are increasingly attached to more than one party. c. Increased ticket-splitting indicates that the media are becoming less important than party identification. d. Increased ticket-splitting indicates that voters are becoming more apathetic.
What event or events did political scientist Graham Allison use to support the bureaucratic politics model of foreign policy?
a. the Vietnam War in general b. the behavior of bureaucrats on the ground in executing orders during the Vietnam War c. the Cuban Missile Crisis d. the 9/11 attacks e. the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 9/11 attacks
As a result of a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas over tobacco-related illnesses, the American tobacco industry must pay
A) $25 million in damages. B) $18 billion in damages. C) $100 million in damages. D) $233 million in damages.