The Smallest Individual Unit of a Program Written in Any

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Short Answer

The smallest individual unit of a program written in any language is called a(n) ____________________.

Analyze the consequences of pork-barrel politics and the principal-agent problem in public choice theory.

Comprehend the concept of regulatory capture and its implications in government-industry relations.

Examine the special-interest effect and its impact on lobbying efforts.

Grasp the bundled choice problem in voting behavior and its outcomes.

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Definitions:

Trojan

A virus program that appears to be a normal application but that, when executed, changes something. It does not replicate but could gather information that could later be used to hack into someone’s computer.

Multifactor Authentication

A security system requiring more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user's identity.

Password/PIN

Security measures used to protect access to devices and accounts, consisting of a secret series of characters (password) or numbers (PIN) known only to the user.

Smart Card

A small ID-size card that can store data, be encrypted, and swiped through and/or interact wirelessly with a smart card reader. Examples of smart cards are identification, medical, credit, and access card.