PLSC 101

7 billion correct answers What is the world population currently? 3 billion correct answers What was the worlds population 50 years ago (1960)? 2 billion correct answers What was the worlds population 100 years ago (1930)? 330 million correct answers What is the US population? 50% correc...

The impact of international trade on domestic societies correct answers continues to increase World Politics correct answers can directly affect the economic conditions of us all The world economy affects domestic jobs through correct answers trade, international investment, and tourism (all o...

Politics correct answers Who gets what, when, and how? Process which provides for the authoritative allocation of values for a society Collective action correct answers A situation in which many individuals woudl benefit from a certain action oligarchy correct answers A small group of people ...

procedural democracy correct answers Focued on elections substantive democracy correct answers Focused on rights and liberties legislatures correct answers A deliberate assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a nation or a state Executives correct answers Exe...

What is an iron triangle? correct answers An alliance of common interest among an interest group, a congressional committee, and a bureaucratic agency Which of the following best characterizes the "disturbance theory" of interest group development? correct answers When individuals feel threaten...

Current event: China correct answers This country helped to build and pay for the railroad between Ethiopia and Djibouti that just opened. It is already planning to build another, longer railway in West Africa Current event: Egypt correct answers Women in this country created a Roller Derby team ...

Civil Liberties correct answers freedoms found primarily in the Bill of Rights, the enjoyment of which are protected from government interference protected by prohibitions against government actions that threaten the enjoyment of freedom. 2 groups: Freedom of expression, belief, and association, ...

bicameral correct answers As applied to the legislative body, consisting of two houses or chambers bill markup correct answers The process of revising a bill in committee casework correct answers Services performed by members of Congress for constituents caucus correct answers A regional, e...

Why did states initially refuse to adopt the Constitution? correct answers It did not contain a bill of rights The U.S. ranks _____ among developed nations in the proportion of citizens who claim that religion plays an important role in their lives correct answers At the top The right to peace...

Democracy correct answers Rule by people or by many Monarchy correct answers Rule by ONE, usually until death or renounced office. Ex. UK Oligarchy correct answers Rule by a FEW. A small minority group rules over the majority. Royalty, wealth, and family ties all play a factor. Direct Democ...

citizenship correct answers informed and active membership in a political community Autocracy correct answers A form of government in which a single individual rules oligarchy correct answers a form of government in which a small group of landowners, military officers, or wealthy merchants con...

A member of Congress who votes like a "delegate" will try to accurately represent the views of his or her constituents. True or false? correct answers True Which Congress is NOW in session? correct answers 115th The "cloture" rule operates (house, senate, both) correct answers Applies to t...

1648 correct answers Signing of the Treaty of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War () and beginning the modern state system of sovereignty. 1919 correct answers The year of the Versailles Peace Conference in Paris, France and the establishment of the League of Nations. Abyssinia correct a...