Live and Teach Better is an interest group that has been lobbying members of Congress to improve the health benefits of teachers in Wisconsin. Only about 20 percent of the total number of teachers in Wisconsin are members of the group and contribute to it. Recently, it was successful in getting better health benefits for teachers throughout the city. Even though most of the teachers in the city
did not make an effort to help the members of the interest group, they were able to enjoy the improved health benefit plans. In this scenario, the members of the interest group is faced with the issue known as the _____.
A) dispersed cost problem
B) union decline problem
C) free rider problem
D) independent expenditure problem
E) free access problem
C
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a. emphasizes international trade over domestic policies. b. reflects free trade and other liberal economic principles. c. provides guidelines congruent with dependency's assumptions. d. has been supported by developing-world governments. e. illustrates commonalities in the three perspectives.
The path by which a bill becomes a law faces so many obstacles that few bills survive; only about __________ percent of all bills that are introduced are enacted
a. 6 b. 10 c. 12 d. 20