Political parties use newspaper articles, debates, and television announcements to present their views about important political issues.These activities:
A. help citizens learn about the issues, form opinions, and consider proposed solutions.
B. enable the parties to coordinate policy-related issues among the three branches of the government.
C. enable the parties to adopt a view broad enough on these issues that no group will be alienated.
D. promote unity among diverse party factions.
E. support the party platforms or parts of it.
Answer: A
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
As Madison points out in Federalist No. 10, since the states and the national government combine the citizenry’s preferences into different groupings, the two levels of government do which of the following?
a. They usually adopt almost identical policies to address the same problem. b. They are always responsive to the same coalitions of people. c. They may adopt different, even opposite, policies to address the same problem. d. They operate in an unequal way; the states can leave all of the difficult decision-making about policy to the federal government.