What is an example of a case study from your own knowledge, or from the text?
What will be an ideal response?
Kai Erikson was hired after a flood ravaged the community of Buffalo Creek in West Virginia, leaving destruction and death in its wake. He was hired by a law firm to estimate the extent of the destruction in the situation. Erikson spent five years studying the scenario, with the hope that the particular case would be generalizable to other scenarios. Erikson conceptualized the flood as a case of human disaster comparable to earthquakes, air raids, and other catastrophes. The scenario showed a coherent but threatened culture shocked by a massive disruption in its way of life struggling to regain a sense of meaning. This work was used as a touchstone for New Yorkers recovering from 9/11. There was great consistency among the disaster coping scenarios despite the fact that they occurred as a result of two very different events in very different settings.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Which of the following is a key factor in the increased size of the Cabinet over the years?
A) president's inability to get legislative initiatives passed by Congress B) growth in the responsibilities of government C) new congressional requirement that Cabinet departments have an equal relationship with a particular congressional committee D) the feeling that the Cabinet should remain proportional in size to the bureaucracy E) president's need to be seen as a consensus builder
Which of the following statements about welfare programs is true?
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An economic model that maintains that a higher rate of taxation can result in lower government revenues is called __________
a. the Buffet rule b. the Laffer curve c. the OMB factor d. progressive taxation