What is a mixed electoral system?

A. It is when the government depends on the legislature and the president.
B. It is when you have districts that elect different numbers of people.
C. It is when the electoral system uses both a majoritarian formula and a proportional formula.
D. It is when you have multimember districts.
E. It is when the winning candidate must win a majority or plurality of the vote.


C. It is when the electoral system uses both a majoritarian formula and a proportional formula.

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Which of the following best describes the role of the Japanese government in its economy?

a. It was very interventionist prior to World War II but the occupation forced the government to adopt laissez-faire policies that have remained in place to this day. b. It has always played a major role serving as both patron and protector of domestic industry. c. It has acted as the patron and guardian for domestic industries since the Meiji period. d. Its adoption of a "wartime command economy" during World War II was an aberration as the government had traditionally adopted a laissez-faire stance. e. It began to act as a patron and protector of domestic industries only after the end of the Allied occupation in the 1950s.

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Interest groups in Texas generally do not

a. rally the public to support their cause. b. lobby members of the state legislature. c. petition executive branch officials. d. file lawsuits to accomplish their policy goals. e. introduce legislation to enforce their preferred policies

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The Texas economy is shifting from one based on natural resources to one based on

a. manufacturing. b. the banking industry. c. information and technology. d. federal grants. e. sports teams.

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A general but important rule in experimentation is that each study is designed so as to

A) control experimental variance, maximize extraneous variance, and control error variance. B) maximize experimental variance, control extraneous variance, and minimize error variance. C) maximize all variance except error variance. D) ignore error variance and maximize between-groups variation.

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