This Graph Shows How People Have Responded Over Time to the Following

question 19

Multiple Choice

This graph shows how people have responded over time to the following question: how much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right-just about always,most of the time,or only some of the time? Sources: Authors' analysis of 1958-2012 American National Election Study data.As there were no election
studies for 2006,2010,and 2014,we have used the following sources for those years: December 2006 Pew
Research Center poll; February 5-10,2010 New York Times/CBS News Poll; February 2014 Pew Research
Center poll.
-Which of the following is a possible effect of declining trust in government?

• A)a lack of public support for government programs
• B)increased support for liberal policies -Consider This: Liberals tend to support the "big government" programs in which people lose faith as trust in the government wanes.
• C)more people emigrating from the United States
• D)greater voter turnout for midterm elections

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Definitions:

Inference Forms

Patterns or structures of logical reasoning where conclusions are drawn from a set of premises.

MP

Short for "Member of Parliament," a representative elected to participate in the legislative process of a parliamentary democracy.

Inference Forms

Specific patterns of reasoning that are used to derive conclusions from premises.

Conj

This term may refer to a conjunction in logic, which is a compound statement formed by connecting two statements with the word "and."