What role do interest groups play in american politics? that is what do interest groups hope to influence and why ?

Which of the following is true of cultural syndromes of distress? a. it refers to attributing pathological symptoms to normative cultural differences. b. refers to misinterpreting culturally sanctioned behavior as expressions of pathological symptoms. c. it refers to the ways that communities and cultural groups communicate and express their distressing thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. d. it refers to patterns of symptoms that tend to cluster together for individuals in specific cultural groups, communities, or contexts.

Mankiw attributes – chapter 1 and his 10 principles – differences in living standards within a countryover time and across countries at a moment in time to: a. the presence or absence of inflation and unemployment. b. the allocation of resources between private markets and the public sector. c. those that have dealt successfully with the efficiency v. equality tradeoff and those that haven’t. d. differences in productivity. e. ones that think at the margin and respond to incentives and those that don’t.

Which products do you think required scientific knowledge to develop?