Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States ranks ______ in voter participation.

The power of a chief executive to cancel specific items in an appropriation or tax bill is called the

a. veto. b. pocket veto. c. legislative veto. d. line item veto. e. appropriation veto.

In his famous "fireside chats" during the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was using his skills as

a. chief administrator. b. chief diplomat. c. manager of the economy. d. national opinion leader. e. chief of state.