In the United States, the power of government is derived from

a. federal officials

b. state government.
c. local units of government.
d. the people.


d

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Industrial elites came to prominence in large part because

a. the Civil War removed competing Southern planter elites. b. war profits allowed them to be independent of government spending. c. canals and railroads brought in foreign competition. d. None of the above is true.

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Which of these statements is a liberal argument against the United States adopting policies intended to spread democracy abroad?

a. Political modernization will occur eventually without expensive outside help. b. International organizations are already involved in the effort to promote democracy. c. All of the cultures that value democracy have already gone through the process of democratization. d. Democratization works best when it is the result of internal pressures and led by a home-grown movement.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Values above the upper fence are defined as outliers in boxplots. 2. The inner fence is an observed value. 3. Observations flagged as outliers generally should be retained when they are not coding errors, when they are plausible values of the variable in question, and when they do not greatly affect the value of the mean. 4. The normal distribution refers to the distribution of a variable that resembles a cigar-shaped curve. 5. The standard deviation is a desirable statistic because metric variables are normally distributed.

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How do expectations and rules help international players feel more secure?

a. They help international players to anticipate the actions of other players. b. They provide a sense of well-being for the individual citizens of a state. c. They enable state and non-state entities to form. d. They prohibit the use of aggression between international players.

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