A) changes in the forms of communication
B) a failure of government officials to communicate truthfully
C) a growing disinterest in seeking out news items
D) the growing public gap in access to more advanced forms of media transmission, such as the Internet
E) the increasing political polarization of elected politicians
G) A) and C)
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A) reduced the restrictiveness of constitutionalism.
B) enhanced the powers of the executive.
C) further checked the power of the majority.
D) enhanced the majoritarian nature of government.
E) restricted the power of corporate influence in the government.
G) C) and E)
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A) The public as a whole takes an interest in only a few of the hundreds of policy decisions that U.S. officials make each year.
B) The public lacks access to the information required to take informed political action on most issues dealt with by the government each year.
C) The actions of special interest groups are ultimately more influential than the voting power of the public.
D) The rapid turnover of government officials and members of the legislature prevents the majority public from making a sustained effort for any single issue.
E) The most power tends to reside with a wealthy minority of the voting public, preventing the majority public from setting the issue agenda.
G) A) and B)
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A) The government does not attempt to manage the overall economy, but owns a number of major industries and provides for people's basic economic needs.
B) The government manages the overall economy through ownership of most major industries, and does not allow private property.
C) The economy operates almost exclusively on private transactions.
D) The government does little to manage the economy and owns no major industries, serving mainly to provide for people's basic economic needs.
E) Firms are largely free to make their own production, distribution, and pricing decisions, and individuals depend largely on themselves for economic security.
G) A) and D)
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Majoritarianism exists where the majorit...View Answer
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A) He felt that well-funded private interest groups and lobbyists had taken the true majoritarian power of democracy away from the voting public.
B) He felt that modern democratic government had become an unhealthy, pluralistic enterprise.
C) He believed that among forms of government, only democracy could provide a citizen with the ability to be a "progressive being."
D) He worried that most citizens are too uninformed to play the role democracy assigns them.
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) A) and E)
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A) communistic
B) socialistic
C) authoritarian
D) egalitarian
E) republican
G) B) and D)
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A) "God Almighty."
B) "the consent of the governed."
C) "the various factions."
D) "the teachings of Jesus Christ."
E) "the benevolence of a just king."
G) B) and E)
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A) politics.
B) government.
C) elitism.
D) socialism.
E) communism.
G) None of the above
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A) is indicative of Americans' relative indifference to higher education.
B) is evidence of the general truth that the states with the highest percentage of college graduates are located between the Rockies and the Mississippi River.
C) is one of seven U.S. states with fewer than five institutions of higher learning.
D) demonstrates how closed higher education in the United States is compared to the rest of the world.
E) has a higher proportion of college graduates than most European countries.
G) A) and D)
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