Chapter One

1. Which president warned against the power of the "military industrial complex" upon leaving office?

2. The "bureaucratic" perspective argues that civil servants govern our political system. About how many federal civil servants are part of the bureaucracy today?

3. The "pluralist" perspective contends that interest group competition shapes political outcomes. About how much money did political action committees contribute to candidates for federal office in 1998?

4. Which major work by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels outlines socialist economic theory and influenced such political leaders as Lenin and Mao Tse Tung?