A nonpartisan election
a. is illegal.
b. only takes place at the federal level.
c. allows voters to choose among candidates whose affiliation is unknown.
d. violates the principle of "direct democracy."
e. is only used in primary elections.
c
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b. Politicians often will wait until after an election year to raise unpopular taxes. c. Politicians are most likely to increase taxes when the political costs are the highest. d. Fiscal hardship is the most important motivation for a state to adopt new taxes.
Which of the following is true of Max Weber's views on political identity?
A. Wealth is the sole criteria for obtaining the membership in all identity groups. B. Most forms of political identity are rooted in economic interests. C. Class-consciousness implies is the sole criterion for the development of political identity. D. Noneconomic forms of identity can serve as powerful engines of political mobilization. E. Weber identified religion to be the most potent of all influencing factors that operate within a civilization.
Brazil's concern for the protection of the environment can be seen in all of the following EXCEPT a. a decision by the government to abandon plans to construct a large dam. b. efforts to reduce deforestation
c. signing and ratifying important international environmental treaties. d. agreeing to reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions. e. signing a regional environmental agreement.
Studies of fertility among the hunting and gathering populations, the French Canadian settlers, and the Irish indicate that __________
a. societies were able to adjust birth rates to adapt to the social and economic environment in which they existed b. these populations had lower life expectancies, because lack of birth-spacing led to poverty and famine c. when population density was low, more land could be devoted to agriculture, and enough food could be grown to eliminate famine d. societies were not able to make adjustments to birth rates or mortality rates