What is prerogative power?
a. The president has limited powers according to the Constitution, and Congress has the right to rein him in when he oversteps his bounds.
b. Legislative politics are secondary to the president's decisions, because he or she alone has the right to act independently for the public good.
c. Although government should be centered on legislative politics, executives should be able to act when the law is silent and when necessary for the public good.
d. The president and Congress must work together on every issue and reach an agreement through compromise, as neither has the right to act alone.
c
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_______ policies involve the allocation of benefits or services, at no charge, to particular segments of the population—individuals, groups, companies, or communities
a. Regulatory b. Distributive c. Redistributive d. Constituent
Deviant case studies are valuable because they
a. prove hypotheses. b. explain why cases that do not fit the hypothesis being tested do not undermine the validity of the hypothesis. c. can prove hypothesis wrong. d. lead researchers to consider different explanations that they might have ignored if they had also ignored the deviant case. e. apply findings to countries with very different values of the dependent variable.