Since the early 1990s, crime rates have

In the chapter's "Unresolved Debate" box, researcher Chris Achen insists that instability in responses to public opinion surveys is not the result of Americans' incapacity to make good political decisions but something else. What is it?

a. poorly worded survey questions b. sampling error c. interviewer bias d. lack of conviction e. accumulation of nonattitudes

Chief Justice John Marshall believed in a(n) ______ construction of the Constitution, meaning that constitutional provisions have broad and open-ended meanings

a. flexible b. strict c. loose d. living e. elastic