One reason environmental policy tends to be so controversial is that most people feel that government is already doing enough to control pollution. environmental policy creates winners and losers who share equally in costs and benefits. environmental issues mobilize voters and swing elections. so many environmental issues are enmeshed in scientific uncertainty environmental policy often takes the form of majoritarian politics, which requires strong emotional appeals to overcome the political advantage of client groups.

Which of the following best illustrates the process of the supreme court’s review of a case?

Which legal case forced the university of maryland to admit an african american student to its law school?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.