Which of the following describes how issues end up on the decisionmaking agenda?
a. Initiative by individuals within the government, including the president
b. Issues that are important in the past
c. Issues that are elevated as the result of domestic and international events, such as crises
d. All of the above are true.
D
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What was a major difference between the democratic system of ancient Athens and the Roman Republic?
a. The Romans had representative democracy, while the Athenians had direct democracy. b. The Romans allowed women to vote and run for public office, while the Athenians did not. c. Several competing parties participated in Roman politics, while Athenian politics was dominated by a single party. d. The Roman system had no checks on the power of the common people, while the Athenian system kept the common people remote from political power.
Imagine that a scholar wants to develop a measure of preelectoral coordination among parties in democracies. If she thinks about the level of preelectoral coordination between any two parties as going from running independently at one extreme to merging into a single party at the other extreme, then is she conceptualizing preelectoral coordination in terms of a dichotomy or a continuum?
A. Dichotomy B. Continuum