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Elected officials' support of a party "brand name" is an example of a tragedy of the commons.

A) True
B) False

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Which term describes the idea that certain possibilities are made more or less likely because of decisions made in the past?

A) decisiveness
B) logrolling
C) historical determinism
D) path dependency

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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The designated domain over which institutional actors have the authority to make decisions is referred to as

If the populace has some direct role in political decision making, the government is most likely

What is the dark side of principal-agent relationships?

Elected officials are motivated by reelection, but political actors who are not elected do not have identifiable motivations.

Almost all politics takes place through formal, structured bargaining with clear winners and losers.

To win elections, presidential candidates typically focus their campaign visits and spending on "swing states" that could vote for either major candidate. This strategic allocation exemplifies which of the five principles of politics?

A well-known, politically moderate senator has recently introduced very conservative amendments to bills dealing with the economy in order to appeal to more conservative financial donors. In turn, she hopes these donors might contribute to her budding presidential campaign. She is basing her policy decisions on

A small group of congressional party and committee leaders meet in an unmarked room in the U.S. Capitol and make legislative deals while sipping bourbon. This pattern of group decision making is best described as

A form of government in which a single individual-king, queen, or dictator-rules is known as

Governments differ in terms of who rules and what limits exist on governmental power. Describe the main types of ruling structures and of constraints on government.

The kind of rule in which the power of government has only minimal legal limits but is effectively restrained by other social, religious, or economic institutions is called

The following question is an example of a(n) __________ question in political science: "Are African American legislators more likely to support African American interests than other legislators with similar districts?"

Few citizens have political goals, and fewer still work to achieve those goals.

A system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the governmental process, usually through the selection of key public officials, is called

According to the text, the five principles that help explain why government does what it does are (1) all political behavior has a purpose; (2) institutions structure politics; (3) all politics is collective action; (4) political outcomes are the products of individual preferences and institutional procedures; and (5)

The ability to defeat something even if it has made it on to the agenda of an institution is called veto power.

The Speaker of the House is free to send a newly introduced bill to any committee he or she likes.

The Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph Stalin was a classic example of a(n) __________ society.