Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Lobbying is most accurately thought of as a singular process rather than an ongoing one.
2. Inside lobbying efforts focus on the content of a piece of legislation as well as the levels of funding for agencies and programs through the appropriation process.
3. Iron triangles are the coordinated and mutually beneficial activities of interest groups, Congress, and the bureaucracy to achieve a set of shared policy goals, sometimes against the general interests of society of the specific groups within it.
4. Interest groups rarely involve themselves in the election process.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
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Legislative assemblies often divide the work between standing committees, which
a. only investigate legislation and are not allowed to write proposals. b. cover a large number of issues within a single committee as to limit the work of others. c. look into a particular area then dissolve. d. are permanent, and write statutes for a specific issue area.
A single transferable vote (STV) system
a. is one where multiple candidates from the same political party compete against each other for the right to represent the party in a general election for a particular political office. b. is an election in which the two candidates who receive the most votes in the first round compete in a second round. c. combines preference voting with multi-member districts. d. has voters casting votes for a particular party that play a role in the decision of which candidates receive the seats earned by that party. e. is an electoral system in which voters cast their votes for political parties and the percentage of the vote that each party receives translates into the percentage of seats that the party receives in the legislature.