Imagine that a scholar wants to develop a measure of preelectoral coordination among parties in democracies. If she decides that she is most interested in whether two parties coordinate their electoral strategies at all versus both competing independently in an election, then is she conceptualizing preelectoral coordination in terms of a dichotomy or a continuum?

Democratic candidates for Congress do the LEAST well in which of the following regions or areas of the state?

a) South Texas b) Houston c) inner cities d) West Texas e) Austin

The thesis behind Bowling Alone suggests that interest group membership has __________

a. increased because of technology b. decreased because of public policy c. increased because of public policy d. decreased because of technology