The government of the United States is best characterized as
- a direct democracy.
- authoritarian.
- totalitarian.
- a republic.
a republic
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In the view of many scholars and practitioners of international relations, the rules of thumb for choosing between the two decision-making models are
a. Nature of the situation, leader, and regime. b. Nature of the situation, leader, and the international system. c. Nature of the leader, regime, and the organizational process. d. Nature of bureaucratic process, the leader, and organizational process. e. Nature of the situation, the leader, and international organizations
The Vietnam War and Watergate affected Congress by ______.
a. causing Congress to take steps to increase its independence from the information sources of the executive branch b. causing Congress to reduce its dependence on information sources outside of the executive branch c. causing Congress to increase the power of committee chairs to strengthen the institution d. causing Congress to reduce the power of the leadership e. reducing party line votes in Congress
Which of the following is true of Lincoln presidents?
A. They are active politicians. B. They interpret the Constitution narrowly. C. They view the presidency as being implicitly limited. D. They adopt a custodial view of presidential powers.
Paralleling the spread of democracy, since the 1980s there has been the transformation from:
A. free-market economies to socialist economies. B. mixed economies to collectivist economies. C. open economies to closed economies. D. command economies to market-based economies.