What about U.S. agencies, like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the CIA, make them so ill-prepared to fight terrorism?
A) They have extremely different missions when it comes to terrorism.
B) They are poorly funded.
C) They have a great deal of red-tape to get through in order to be able to communicate.
D) They are often unwilling to communicate with each other.
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Conservatives hold that Johnson’s Great Society was a waste of money, locking recipients into __________ and encouraging a subculture of drugs and crime.
A) entitlement benefits
B) perpetual subsidies
C) social safety nets
D) welfare dependency
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Describe how today’s conservatives use the term “political economy.”
A) Conservatives use the term to try to get back to the pure market system advocated by Adam Smith.
B) Conservatives understand the term within the context of Machiavelli’s The Prince.
C) Conservatives veer toward John Stuart Mill’s usage, which advocated utilitarianism.
D) Conservatives take a neo-utilitarian approach, hoping to benefit the weakest members of society.
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In the case of both parliamentary and presidential systems, examine the reason democracies will not vanish, even though the executive seems to be receiving more and more power.
A) Checks and balances keep the chief executive from gaining too much power.
B) Chief executives will eventually have to face reelection, which depends greatly on the approval of voting citizens.
C) Both systems have methods by which to oust chief executives.
D) Subordinates carry out some of the workload of the chief executive.
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The only political system that could guarantee the cooperation between the legislative and executive branches is __________.
A) a monarchy
B) a dictatorship
C) a democracy
D) an oligarchy
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Who directly calls forth the leader of the largest party to take office with a cabinet and become the prime minister?
A) The voters
B) Parliament
C) The monarch
D) The House of Commons
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Because of the separation of powers inherent in a presidential system, some scholars think that executive-legislative __________is common in systems like that used in the United States.
A) cooperation
B) stagnation
C) deadlock
D) insolvency
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In a parliamentary system, voters directly elect __________.
A) members of parliament and the prime minister
B) members of parliament and the ministerial cabinet
C) members of parliament only
D) the prime minister only
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Which systems demonstrate the clearest separation of power between the executive and legislative branches?
A) Parliamentary
B) Presidential
C) Monarchies
D) Ministerial
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Describe the primary jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court.
A) It makes initial rulings on all federal cases, civil and criminal.
B) It rules on high penalty cases, including those with life sentences and the death penalty.
C) Its jurisdiction is almost entirely appellate, from lower federal or state supreme courts.
D) Its jurisdiction is broad, ranging from appellate rulings to original rulings in federal crimes.
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