The ______ role of interest groups is reflected in MADD’s attempts to increase public awareness of problems related to drunk driving and to direct legislative attention to the issue.

Outline the differences between a winner-take-all system such as the one the United States is using and a proportional system such as the one many European democracies use

In your opinion, what are two positives and two negatives of each system? Would you prefer to see the United States adopt a proportional system? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response?

The Department of Education successfully lobbies to have added to the budget a new federally-funded program that would ?provide for technology in classrooms. Spending on this program would be best described as _________ spending

A) ?mandatory B) ?budget-busting C) ?discretionary D) ?presidential E) ?Article I