A representative who obtains a government project or appropriation for his district, yielding specific benefits to himself and the district (such as patronage positions, increased employment, or public spending), is said to be practicing

a. carpet bagging.
b. soft money tactics.
c. pork-barrel politics.
d. logrolling.
e. Reaganomics.

Ans: c. pork-barrel politics.

Political Science

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a. nuclear family as the central economic and social unit. b. population living in North America and not in Russia. c. denunciation of the Inuit by another First Nation. d. official cultural category used by Canada's government. e. people acceptable to Westerners.

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The dominance of the Roman Empire over Europe and western Asia was an example of

A) collective security. B) hegemony. C) interdependence. D) multipolarity. E) self-help.

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