Which of the following is a consequence of partisan sorting?
a. It facilitates compromise between ideological opponents.
b. It increases the likelihood that citizens will swing between candidates.
c. It decreases the incidence of hyperpartisanship.
d. It tends to increase the number of citizens who occupy the ideological middle ground.
e. It makes it easier to demonize one’s political opponents.
e. It makes it easier to demonize one’s political opponents.
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Which of the following about Brazil's police forces is INCORRECT?
a. The federal police force is fairly small even though it combines a number of responsibilities. b. The military police regulates only military personnel. c. Both the civil and military police forces have been accused of arbitrary detention, torture, corruption, and even systemic killings. d. The federal police force has been at the center of every national investigation of corruption. e. State governors are nominally in charge of the military police force.
A dramatic increase in size of the federal bureaucracy occurred during the twentieth century, largely as a consequence of
A. the growth of patronage and the rise of political parties. B. the Sixteenth Amendment and the Social Security Act. C. a desire for limited government and an end to earlier regulatory practices. D. the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II. E. the rise of special-interest groups and unions.