In Recent Years, Bargaining and Compromise Between the President and Congress

question 21

Multiple Choice

In recent years, bargaining and compromise between the president and Congress have grown much more difficult. Which of the following factors helps account for this change?

• A) decreased use of the filibuster
• B) intense party competition for control of national institutions
• C) increase in the number of signing statements
• D) gerrymandering

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Definitions:

Expected Frequencies

In statistics, the numbers of observations or outcomes that one would expect to occur in each category if the null hypothesis were true.

Nonparametric Tests

Statistical tests not relying on data belonging to any particular distribution; often used when data does not meet the assumptions of parametric tests.

Normally Distributed

Describing a data set whose distribution forms a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve, with most values clustering around a central mean.

Conservative Strategy

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