How do modern presidents deal with an opposition Congress?
What will be an ideal response?
They rely on vetoes and veto threats and pull more decision making into the White House.
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Why did the party convention come to replace the caucus as a mechanism to nominate candidates for political office?
a. The caucus system was opaque, favoring party elites and incumbents. b. The caucus system was inefficient and arbitrary. c. The caucus system overly favored urban business interests. d. The caucus system was too clearly controlled by the executive branch.
Research on diagnoses of people from different cultures has revealed that
a. diagnoses tend to be valid if a psychologist uses the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). b. cultural effects are minimized if diagnoses are based on objective criteria. c. stereotypes on the part of psychologists could influence the diagnoses of their clients. d. the diagnoses are valid for virtually all Americans and Europeans, but not for Asians and Africans.
Let us pretend that the U. S. Department of Agriculture does regular surveys on mature Americans to see what concerns they have with foodborne illnesses
You hear on the news one night that mature Americans are now 50 times more likely to worry about Mad Cow disease than they were five years ago. You happen to remember that there was an outbreak of Mad Cow disease last year (at around the same time the data were collected). It is possible that the increase in concern over Mad Cow disease is partially due to the recent outbreak. This is an example of __________ being a threat to internal validity. a. history b. maturation c. regression to the mean d. selection
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. When a country is deemed legitimate by its own people, it has legal sovereignty. 2. Traditional legitimacy is based on a selection according to an accepted set of laws. 3. Somaliland is not considered a state because it lacks international legal sovereignty. 4. “The right to rule based on leaders’ selection according to an accepted set of laws” is the definition of bureaucratic legitimacy.