According to the "What Puts the ‘Big' in Big Government?" feature, government spending through borrowing as a percentage of ____________ increased between 1962 and 2012

According to Almond, the elite might play to the attentive public because the attentive public tends to __________

a. accept elite views b. represent the view of the society as a whole c. pass on views that mobilize the general public d. take a more negative view on elite control than the general public does

Some scholars of the realist school have looked at the modern state of international politics, and suggested that a world built upon sovereign states may be on its way out. Why might this be?

a. because more people are realizing, given the ease with which information crosses borders, that state power is socially constructed b. because transnational problems, including climate change, shifting values, and the spread of disease, are threatening state power c. because greater economic interdependence and increasing transnational problems are bound to lead to a one-world government d. because a revolution in communications and social media, has led to a rapid decline in acceptance of state power worldwide