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To the extent that there are “biases” in most news outlets, these biases are best attributed to:

Policy makers often use ______________ as a way of floating “trial balloons” to assess the reaction of the public to certain policy issues.

Interest groups that are made to look like “grassroots” groups, but are really created by a larger interest group to create the illusion of grassroots support, are called

The phenomenon that involves members of a legislature agreeing to vote for each other’s spending bills is known as _____________

The main critique of the “stages” model of the policy process is that it

Outputs from the systems model of politics and policy include

People study the policy process because

Searching for a branch of government that would serve as the most likely forum for a particular policy proposal is an example of

The news media threaten iron triangles and other tightly knit policy subsystems by

Group mobilization refers to the idea that