An example of the tragedy of the commons would be:

a. when your roommate drinks all of your soda from the shared refrigerator
b. when one country cuts down all of its forests and sells the timber
c. when the fish in the ocean are overfished and depleted
d. when the world consumes all of the available oil in the ground


c. when the fish in the ocean are overfished and depleted

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German society in the late-1800s has been described as

a. democratic. b. decadent. c. faulted. d. corrupt. e. liberal.

Political Science

The path diagram X?Y represents a causal theory. An explanation of how change in X produces change in Y is also an important part of the theory; it is called the

A. Causal mechanism B. Causal model C. Causal information D. Causal influence

Political Science

The Supreme Court has permitted Congress to abrogate the states' sovereign immunity in order to vindicate individual rights protected by the

a. Twelfth Amendment. b. Fourteenth Amendment. c. Sixteenth Amendment. d. Eighteenth Amendment.

Political Science

A comprehensive set of beliefs about the political world is _______.

A. a political culture B. the basis of national character C. a political ideology D. composed primarily of cognitive orientations

Political Science