Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Mandates are not particularly important in consensus democracies.
2. Government identifiability is higher when there are many parties but they form preelectoral coalitions than when there are many parties that only begin bargaining over government formation after elections.
3. Responsiveness is an important goal for both the majoritarian and the consensus visions of democracy, though each conceptualize the term quite differently.
4. Analysts who look at fiscal activity in advanced industrialized countries in the postwar period find that there is very little cross-national variation in the level of fiscal activity.
5. According to the Meltzer–Richards model of the size of government, preferences over tax rates are a function of a voter’s income.Voters with a higher-than-average level of income prefer low taxes while voters with a lower-than-average income prefer high taxes.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
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