How do constituencies influence lawmakers’ voting decisions?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should describe two main pathways of influence. First, voters tend to elect representatives whose views mirror their own. Second, members are under electoral pressure to vote in line with constituency preferences or risk losing their seat in the next election.
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a. benefit programs for individuals b. interest on the national debt c. national defense d. monetary policy
In computing a correlation coefficient, if both variables are measured on at least an interval scale, then the appropriate coefficient is
A) A Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. B) A multiple correlation coefficient. C) A Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient. D) A canonical correlation coefficient.