The Madisonian view of democracy often is referred to as which of the following?
a. elitism
b. factionalism
c. pluralism
d. conditional party government
c. pluralism
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In the contemporary United States, information is a scarce resource.
a. true b. false
Which of the following international agencies often influences countries to impose sanctions?
a. International Labor Organization b. International Atomic Energy Agency c. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change d. International Fund for Agricultural Development
History views most of the presidents from the two decades prior to the Civil War as
a. highly efficient and proactive in addressing the major events of that era. b. activists regarding sensitive issues such as the abolition of slavery. c. weak executives that served a limited role in the political system. d. effective in social issues but lacking in proper use of the military. e. politically powerful beyond what is accepted in modern times.
What aspect of the liberal conception of what can bring about world order, one resurrected by the Gulf War of the early 1990s, has more recently been shown to be a weakness?
a. the reliance on international institutions in bringing about world order, ones that involve state-based collective security, when most recent conflicts have been civil wars b. the reliance on state-based collective security systems in an era when transnational terrorism is more of a threat to world order c. the state-centric nature of international institutions, such as the UN, in an era of porous borders and an information revolution d. the lack of an answer about how to deal with cyberterrorism, especially when it can be carried out by non-state organizations