P222 184

leehom

P222 184
  Which of the following best completes the passage below?
  “Government” does not exist as an independent entity defining policy. Instead there exists a group of democratically elected pragmatists sensitive to the electorate, who establish policies that will result in their own reelection. Therefore, if public policy is hostile to, say, environmental concerns, it is not because of governmental perversity but because elected officials believe that—
(E)the majority of voters do not strongly wish for a different policy.
能帮我分析一下这道题吗？conclusion 和evidence各是什么？答案为何是E？

snow_mountain

the passage tells us the atitude of the elected officials towards a policy depends on their judgement of whether the policy can help me in their reelection. that is to say, if they are in favor of a certain policy, that is only because they think that the majority of the voter are in favor of it, and by doing so, they can gain the support from the majority. vice versa.