PS40 Midterm + Final Multiple Choice

• Knowing only the largest categories of federal spending, what can we say about the level of federal spending on education?

  Education spending is less than 5% of the federal budget.
• The defining feature of a public good is that:

  It is intended for the benefit of the public.
• One way in which states differ from the federal government is that:

  State upper houses are usually not malapportioned.
• According to David Mayhew, legislators are mostly engaged in:

  Trying to win re-election through activities mostly unrelated to lawmaking.
• The President's powers do not include:

  The ability to introduce laws in Congress.
• In a prisoner's dilemma, each player:


  Never cooperates with the other player.
• One difference between most state governments and the federal government is that state governments generally don't have:

  A malapportioned Senate.
• In practice, the modern President is not:


  The deciding voice on legislation.
• Which of the following features of the lawmaking process are specified in the Constitution?

  The veto override.
• In the Constitution of 1789, Senators are elected:


  By state legislatures.