A heavily indebted country recently turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance rescheduling its debt payments. Which of the following conditions is the IMF most likely to attach to its loan?
a. Cut spending on education and public health.
b. Take government ownership of private corporations.
c. Increase public assistance to the poor.
d. Incorporate environmental sustainability into policy decisions.
a. Cut spending on education and public health.
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Americans tend to adhere to the norm of endogamy when they become intimately involved with another person. How does this organizational tendency relate to perceived threats to dominant group privilege?
A. The rising presence of explicit white nationalism parallels these high rates of racially unmixed relationships and both can be viewed as a tactic to ensure domination in the racial hierarchy. B. The rising levels of interracial marriages and declining levels of racially homogenous relationships are a contributing factor to the resurgence of biological notions of race that stem from fears of threats to the racial hierarchy. C. The high rates of endogamy in American relationships are consequences of the recent popularization of biological notions of race, as dominant group members feel threatened by the notion of interracial marriage. D. Dominant group members fear that their future children will suffer sever social consequences as a result of the “one-drop rule” if they are to marry interracially, so they tend to marry within their own race.
Which of the following is NOT a reason for powerful public employee unions to oppose privatization?
A. cost savings often exaggerated B. failure to serve all of the people C. increased accountability and responsiveness D. reduction in quality services
In which way do political parties contribute to democratic governance?
a. dividing the electorate - b. narrowing voter choice c. ensuring majority rule d. reducing accountability mechanisms
Even though the residents of Washington, D.C., have never had voting members of Congress, the Twenty-Third Amendment gives the people of Washington, D.C., ________._
A. senators B. representatives C. presidential electors D. ambassadors