Discuss the rise and ideological foundation of the Tea Party.
What will be an ideal response?
The Tea Party is a grassroots populist movement that come into being in 2009 when the economy was on very shaky ground and resistance to the president’s proposed health care bill was rapidly rising. Generally speaking the movement was based on pro-American, anti-corporation and anti-government sentiment. Conservative talk show hosts and others played on the anger surrounding the movement to spread its unique political narrative. Most Tea Party supporters were white Republican males who were married, over forty-five and generally more conservative than mainstream Republicans.
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The principles embodied in the New Public Service suggest that the public interest will be
a. determined by market forces. b. defined through a dialogue about shared values and interests. c. of little importance in the work of public administrators. d. the outcome of treating citizens as customers.
U.S. foreign policymakers have struggled since the end of the Cold War to determine the degree of intervention that is appropriate and prudent for the U.S. military. No overriding framework emerged in U.S. foreign policy until:
A) the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989. B) the attempted coup against Russian president Boris Yeltsin in 1991. C) the war in Iraq in 2003. D) the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. E) the first Gulf War in 2001.