__________ control election laws in the United States

Which of the following is a component of the Ranney Index of political competition?

___________ of lobbying target citizens rather than government officials in order to persuade officials to perform some action?

An increasingly popular method of selection, the  _________ combines initial appointment by the governor with subsequent retention elections in order to strike a balance between accountability and independence of the judiciary

Which of the following is NOT a critique of interest groups leveled by state regulators?

Which of the following is the most direct form of influence a governor has over the legislature?

Is the calculated concentration of the original sample from a plate count an over estimation or an under estimation of the actual viable bacteria in the original sample? Why?

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In ___________ the Supreme Court determined that elected judges who benefit from significant campaign contributions or independent expendtures have a constitutional obligation to recuse themselves from any case involving parties whom donated to their campaign.

Which of the following groups of bacteria typically does not use catalase, but has an alternate mechanism for dealing with the toxic substance?