___ All interest groups have provisions for individuals to join as members

If current patterns hold, which of the following statements about congressional representation is most accurate? a. The influence of special interests over Congressional representatives is higher on issues of high complexity and low visibility. b. Congressional partisanship has severed the representative connection between Congress and citizens. c. Most of the time individual members are

too beholden to special interests to effectively represent the interests of voters. d. Republicans in Congress are much more closely tied to the representational interests of their districts than Democratic members.

Among the reasons American government is now much harder to administer than in the 18th and 19th centuries is that

A. The United States consists of 300 million diverse and free people, instead of 4 million people in a slave-holding society. B. The United States is politically divided. C. The 20th century featured more consensus among the political elite. D. Federalism has reduced the importance of the states. E. There are fewer interest groups participating in government today.