How do party leaders balance informal criteria in making committee assignments?
What will be an ideal response?
Party leaders consider a variety of informal criteria in making committee assignments. Students need not list all these criteria but should discuss some of the following: gender/racial make-up of committee chairs, seniority, party loyalty, substantive expertise, and electoral vulnerability/how committee assignments may affect reelection concerns.
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What are the principal things about telephone surveys that make it difficult to draw a sample that is random, thereby undermining the validity of the research? How could you address these problems?
What will be an ideal response?
Judicial activism refers to the idea that
a. the courts should shape constitutional meaning to present-day needs. b. the courts should seek areas in which to legislate. c. the courts should use their own beliefs to reach court decisions. d. the courts should uphold original intent of the Constitution.