Candidates for city council run in partisan elections for at-large seats

All of the following statements about the New Deal legislation passed during the Great Depression under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt are true EXCEPT:

a. It resulted in the creation of many new federal agencies and established a permanent "welfare state." b. It expanded presidential power. c. It opened the American power structure to new groups and helped bring about the political realignment of the mid-1930s. d. It took America in an increasingly isolationist foreign policy direction. e. It established a system of social rights to replace dependence on private charity.

A __________ is a dramatic shift in partisan preferences that drastically alters the political landscape

Fill in the blank with the correct words.