An organization of people with shared goals that tries to influence public policy through a variety ...

An organization of people with shared goals that tries to influence public policy through a variety of activities is __________.
 
  A) a religious denomination
  B) an interest group
  C) a political action committee
  D) a government
  E) a corporation

 Q. 2

Because of its growing population, industry, and irrigation-based agriculture, Texas faces serious shortages of
 
  A) gas.
  B) water.
  C) oil.
  D) workers.

 Q. 3

In Federalist No. 10, James Madison noted that the latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. This means ____________.
 
  A) people cannot control their ideological makeup
  B) people are naturally drawn toward the organization of collective interests
  C) free speech is antithetical to a proper functioning democracy
  D) factions do not naturally occur and therefore should be created by government
  E) factions are best expressed in natural surroundings

 Q. 4

Environmental policies in Texas are coordinated by the
 
  A) Environmental Protection Agency.
  B) Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  C) Department of Homeland Security.
  D) Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

 Q. 5

Which term describes a characteristic of public opinion in which political preferences remain very stable over time?
 
  A) intensity
  B) direction
  C) continuity
  D) randomization
  E) generalization

 Q. 6

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is
 
  A) accused of agency capture.
  B) concerned strictly with federal regulations.
  C) wholly independent from the businesses it regulates.
  D) responsible for overseeing local standards, but not state or federal.

 Q. 7

If an analyst seeks to determine how strongly or how committed the public feels about the opinion it holds, then the analyst wants to measure ________.
 
  A) intensity
  B) causal inference
  C) direction
  D) continuity
  E) sampling error