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Kiara Alberigo
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Question 1

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contributing to the success of loophole politics prior to passage of the 1986 tax bill was the
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  • strong support of policy entrepreneurs such as ralph nader
  • existence of tariff revenues to offset lost through deductions
  • decentralized structure of congress
  • existence of low marginal rates to offset revenues lost through deductions
  • strong support of the conservative coalition and ralph nader

Question 2

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monetarists recommend that government increase the money supply at a rate equal to the
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  • growth in unemployment
  • growth in credit
  • drop in wages
  • growth in productivity
  • drop in the rate of inflammation

Question 3

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an economist regards the free market as too dependable to ensure economic efficiency and suggest government control over it. the economist is recommending what type of economic policy?
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  • Keynesian
  • supply-side
  • credit-based
  • monetarist
  • planning

Question 4

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the pocketbook issue tends to preoccupy politicians most
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  • early in a presidential term
  • when the economy is doing poorly
  • just before elections
  • toward the end of a session of congress
  • when presidential popularity is at its peak

Question 5

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supply-side economics advocate that government
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  • interfere less in the economy
  • control both prices and wages
  • control wages more than prices
  • control prices more than wages

Question 6

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the gramm-rudman act was passed by congress to
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  • eliminate deficit spending
  • give more authority to the OMB
  • eliminate the balance of trade deficit
  • fine tune the existing budget procedures
  • eliminate tax cuts

Question 7

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congress is important in economic policy because it
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  • reviews annual reports and removes appointees at will
  • must approve all taxes and most expenditures
  • controls all appointees to the council of economic advisors(CEA)
  • determines the supply of money in the economy at any given time
  • controls all appointees to the federal reserve board

Question 8

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an economist who advocates wage price controls is basically endorsing what theory?
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  • Keynesian
  • planning
  • supply-side
  • credit based
  • monetarist

Question 9

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the economic theory that runs most counter to the planning theory is
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  • credit based theory
  • wage-price-control economics
  • supply side economics
  • Keynesian theory
  • monetarist theory

Question 10

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congress justified the legitimacy of Medicare, despite the fact that the us constitution did not authorize a national health-care system, with the argument that
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  • the us constitution could not have anticipated the need for such a system
  • payments into the system would always exceed benefits
  • the elderly had nowhere else to turn
  • state administration of the system removed it from constitutional jurisdiction
  • the tenth amendment specifically prohibited states from creating such programs

Question 11

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one reason social security looked like a free lunch for much of its history was that
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  • benefits were paid out by states but taxes were paid to the federal government
  • most of the benefits were pro-rated
  • most workers' immediate benefits exceeded their immediate payments
  • Medicare costs were underestimated
  • there were many payers and few beneficiaries

Question 12

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for welfare politics to be majoritarian politics what must be true
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  • the public must perceive the costs as low
  • political elites most personally benefit
  • beneficiaries must believe they will come out ahead
  • beneficiaries must be poor
  • institutions must incorporate the norms of policy statements

Question 13

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the typical us preference in dealing with the problems of the poor is to relieve them by providing
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  • services
  • moral exhortations
  • jobs
  • savings bonds
  • cash

Question 14

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social security and medicare are examples of
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  • neo-institutional politics
  • client politics
  • majoritarian politics
  • entrepreneurial politics
  • interest group politics

Question 15

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the passage of the medicare bill was made possible by
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  • the watering down of the bill to remove the more controversial provisions
  • the strong support of the American medical association
  • a shift in voting patterns on the united states supreme court
  • a democratic landslide in the 1964 elections
  • a marked shift in public opinion

Question 16

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usually, the supreme court has reacted to wartime curtailments of civil liberties by
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  • avoiding rulings on constitutionally and consigning such issues to the lower federal courts
  • upholding them
  • upholding them at first, limiting them later
  • rejecting them first, reinstating them later
  • rejecting them

Question 17

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on the issue of people's constitutional right to speak and publish, which of the following is true?
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  • young people and corporations have the same rights
  • young people have the same freedom of expression as adults
  • corporations and interest groups do not have the same rights
  • young people have more freedom than adults
  • corporations and interest groups have the same rights

Question 18

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on the question of church and state in the schools, the supreme court has permitted
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  • equal time for evolutionism
  • homeroom prayer exercises
  • bible reading in public schools if unaccompanied by commentary
  • public bus service to catholic schools
  • required release time from public school for religious instruction

Question 19

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police are allowed to search a building for evidence if they have
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  • probable cause or a warrant from a judge
  • suspicion that the potential for a crime may exist
  • permission for the occupant or probable cause
  • a warrant from a judge or permission of the occupant
  • probable cause or permission from the owner

Question 20

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protection against police search of those places in which you have reasonable expectation of privacy means that police cannot normally search, without a warrant, your
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  • stomach
  • barn
  • cornfield from an airplane
  • mobile home
  • backyard from an airplane
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