At the Heart of the Progressive Effort Regarding Initiatives, Popular

question 22

Multiple Choice

At the heart of the Progressive effort regarding initiatives, popular referenda, and recall mechanisms was a

• A) basic trust of political party mechanisms.
• B) faith in the institutions of government and the wisdom of partisan politics.
• C) desire to silence interest groups and restore true democracy
• D) belief in the capacity of individual citizens and in restricting the powers of institutions, such as legislatures.

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Definitions:

Assignable Causes

Specific, identifiable factors leading to variations in a process or system, as opposed to random variations.

Variation

The degree to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other and from the mean of the set.

Specification Limits

Pre-determined upper and lower bounds within which a product or process's performance is considered acceptable.

Standard Deviations

An indicator of the degree of spread or variability in a collection of data points, showing how much the values differ from the average.