What is the national debt?
What will be an ideal response?
The national deficit is the accumulation of deficits from year to year. These deficits occur when federal spending exceeds revenues (opposite of surplus).
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In the state of Oregon, all elections, including presidential elections, are conducted exclusively:
A) on the Internet. B) at polling places located inside school buildings and public libraries. C) through telephone. D) at polling places located in supermarkets. E) by mail.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Modernization theory predicts that the likelihood of a transition to democracy increases with income, whereas the survival story predicts that the likelihood of becoming a democracy is unrelated to income. 2. Modernization theory predicts that the likelihood of a transition to democracy decreases with income, whereas the survival story predicts that transitions to dictatorship become more likely with income. 3. Foreign aid will have a detrimental effect on the recipient country’s economic development no matter what the size of the dictator’s winning coalition is: 4. States with high oil revenues tend to keep dictators in power because since dictators control national oil companies, they can effectively hide the country’s finances from the people. 5. According to the implications of the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty game in Chapter 6, we should expect that countries in which the state controls high levels of natural resources are more likely to be democratic than countries in which the state does not control high levels of natural resources.
The staff agency that advises Congress on the probable economic effect of different spending programs and the cost of proposed policies is the
A. Congressional Budget Office (CBO). B. General Accounting Office (GAO). C. Congressional Research Service (CRS). D. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). E. Congressional Research Fund (CRF).
The ________ Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, often referred to jointly as freedom of expression
a. First b. Second c. Third d. Fourth