What is the main idea behind "pork barrel" politics?
a. Legislators seek to spend government money in their home district to help ensure reelection.
b. Legislators who spend an inordinate amount of the taxpayers' money will most likely lose the next election.
c. The law-making process is less corrupt when representatives can secure limited benefits for their constituents.
d. Interest groups from agricultural areas have greater influence in upper houses of legislatures than in lower houses.
a
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Which of the following best describes the neoconservative view of the United States as a world superpower?
a. The United States shares superpower status with several nations, all of which should be responsible in their behavior because they are role models for other countries in the world. b. Because the United States is the sole remaining superpower, it is in a position to force others to follow rules of proper behavior, but does not have to abide by those rules itself. c. The United States may not be the sole superpower for long, as the economic progress in other countries is threatening to make other countries superpowers as well. d. The United States and China are heading toward a cold war similar to that between the previous two world superpowers.