Why do many Americans believe that they have limited power to change the course of government?
a. Government is viewed as distant and remote.
b. Not all votes are counted equally.
c. Government exists to serve the elite.
d. Most people are unable to contact their representatives.
a
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Nimmo contends that
A) voters respond automatically on the basis of their socioeconomic backgrounds or party loyalties to campaign messages. B) voters construct their own individual view of the campaign by interpreting symbols offered to them by drawing upon their own experience. C) campaigns make no difference in the way that people decide to vote. D) campaigns are all lies and cannot be relied upon at all. E) campaigns pay for themselves by the amount of free advertising they bring about.
Developing countries in Africa and Asia adopted planned
economic systems in the 1950s and 1960s in order to: a. leverage the profit-motive to encourage productivity and development. b. bring modern industry to traditional agricultural areas. c. gain access to U.S. and other Western markets. d. balance their budgets and reduce government spending.
Committees and subcommittees of both houses of Congress frequently hold hearings on proposed legislation (bills) and other subjects within the scope of those committees. These hearings ______.
A. represent an opportunity to work through each section of the bill and rewrite to attract majority support B. are governed by strict rules limiting which amendments members are allowed to offer C. provide an opportunity to make a record for a particular proposal, evaluate how well a program is working, or simply to generate publicity D. for members to cast votes for or against a particular piece of legislation in order to claim credit
Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973 to restrict the war-making power of the __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).