Which region has the highest percentage of seats in the lower house occupied by women?
A. Americas
B. Europe, OSCE member countries
C. Nordic countries
D. sub-Saharan Africa
C. Nordic countries
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The state has dominated world political institutions
a. since World War I. b. for about 350 years since the Treaty of Westphalia. c. since the fall of the Roman Empire. d. the last 200 years since about the time of the American and French revolutions.
The 2006 election in Mexico was historic because
A. it represented the first defeat for the PRI in decades. B. it returned Vicente Fox back to the presidency after a six-year term. C. it was the first election held under Mexico's new constitution. D. it had to be settled by a decision in the Mexican courts.
A general response to the question of whether presidential or parliamentary systems produce better public policy seems to be that
A. no governmental system can produce good public policy. B. there is no evidence that one produces qualitatively better policy than the other. C. presidential systems are more effective policy producers. D. parliamentary systems are more effective policy producers.
How did Israel's practice of directly electing prime ministers prove that combining parliamentary and presidentialism does not create a stable government?
A) Israelis voted for smaller parties to make up the legislature, resulting in a fractionated Knesset that could easily vote out the prime minister via a motion of confidence. B) Israeli voters elected a prime minister from a minority party and chose only majority party members for the legislature. C) The hybrid system was met with a lower voter turnout than in previous years. D) After voting for a prime minister, many Israeli voters did not participate in the election of the legislature.