When a grassroots campaign is artificially orchestrated to make it appear that constituents care about an issue when in reality they do not, it is best known as __________ lobbying.

Which of the following social welfare programs provides a minimum monthly income to people who demonstrate financial need and are age 65 or older, blind, or disabled?

According to American housing policy analysts, explicitly discriminatory government policies created or worsened racial segregation in American cities over the twentieth century. These included racially restrictive zoning laws, as well as the practice of redlining by financial institutions, one encouraged by the federal government. Under this practice, areas with a certain percentage of Black residents were rated as hazardous to investment. While federal policies discourage redlining today, and legal segregation is dead, housing policy analysts say past policies continue to affect ongoing __________________ (or non-legally enforced) patterns of racial segregation.

Government provision or funding of major public goods, ranging from roads and water and sewer lines to air traffic control operations, is often essential to the functioning of an economy or market because

The Nineteenth Amendment extended suffrage to which of the following groups?

Which of the following is the best explanation as to why presidents usually become quite unpopular over the course of their terms?

Although the head of the U.S. Department of Justice is always the Attorney General, the other chief administrators of federal cabinet-level departments are usually called:

In addition to expanding absentee and mail-in ballots, what is a commonly adopted way to make voting easier?

While modern presidents often deploy military forces into conflicts without prior congressional approval, Congress ultimately controls whether these deployments continue due to its constitutional control over

The process of parties selecting candidates for office, usually through primary elections, is best known as which of the following?