Which of the following is considered a positive role of political parties?
a. The constitutional role of political parties is to balance control of the legislative and executive branches.
b. Political parties control the government, thereby keeping government power in check.
c. The major political parties play a central role in running government at all levels, including organizing and providing context to voters.
d. Political parties stir dissent so that citizens do not trust their government too much.
e. Effective political parties successfully eliminate competition.
ANS: C
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a. young people are easier for the government to control. b. they were born after the 1979 revolution and do not remember the Shah's regime. c. they were born after the collapse of the Soviet Union and do not understand Marxism. d. younger people in Iran are being drawn to Sunni mosques. e. they have been brainwashed by the regime to hate foreigners.
Which of the following is true of the council-manager form of city government?
A) It is the most popular form of city government in Texas for home-rule cities. B) The individual members of the city council serve as heads of a city department. C) The city council is simply a rubber stamp. D) The city manager is elected at-large. E) The city manager hires and manages all municipal employees.
Which of these is a true statement?
A. Men tend to vote at a higher rate than women. B. Blacks are less likely than Whites to favor Bible prayer in public schools. C. Urban areas have become the anchor for the contemporary Republican Party. D. City dwellers have a tendency to oppose capital punishment.
What did the Plessy v. Ferguson case produce?
a. bilingualism b. de facto segregation in the North c. the birth of the Ku Klux Klan d. the separate-but-equal doctrine