The spread of a new policy from an initial country to others is referred to as

The trend of decentralization of government in the United States transfers policy authority from ______ to ______.

A. federal to local B. federal to state C. state to federal D. local to federal

Party identification is the single most important predictor of how people decide to vote because ______.

a. voters are too unsophisticated to vote in any other fashion b. it leads people toward prospective issue voting c. as a benefit, being a partisan means the voter does not need to register to vote, which counteracts one of the costs of voting d. it indirectly colors the partisan’s perceptions of issues and candidates