- WARM UP QUESTION: .It's 1962, and your small country is caught between the U.S. and the Soviet Union Both offer aid, but choosing a side could make you a target. Do you align with one, stay neutral, or take another approach? Why?
- How does direct democracy empower citizens? by allowing them to choose government officials by allowing them to directly vote on laws by limiting their ability to change the government by enabling them to live without government interference
- Which of the following is the best.evidence that democratic governments allow for more political participation by citizens than authoritarian governments? Democratic governments are elected by the people. Authoritarian governments do not honor the will of the people. Democratic governments take more time to achieve policy goals than authoritarian states. Citizens are unable to criticize the government in an authoritarian state.
- Which of the following best describes the power structure of a federal system of government? strong local governments and a weak state government strong central government and weak local governments strong national government and strong regional government loosely connected states governing themselves and cooperating as needed
- 19 As technclogy has endoled the media to pass along information with greater speed. news coverage has become __ a. more homogenous b. Jeis thorough c. more objective d. less biased 20 Public officials often leak __ to reporters to see what the political reaction will be a. trial balloons b. sound biles c. beats d. oled new Which of the following is a consequence of the rise of narrowcasting? 21 a. Young adults are more likely than other age groups to use newspapers and broadeast media as news and information sources. b. Young adults are less likely than other age groups to use newspapers and hroadeat media as news and information sources. c. Most Americans follow politics more frequently and with greater intensity than they follow popular culture. d. Narrowcisting has encouraged less reperition of stories on cable news programs. 22 The medin act as a __ between the people and policymakers. a. key linkage institution b. stockbroker c. real estare agent d. standard operating procedure 23. Which of these is an example of a major television network? a. ABC b. Knight-Ridder c. Associated Press d. Gannett
