Rich countries should be concerned about poverty in other countries in part because
a. poor countries vote in the United Nations and other international organizations.
b. poverty undermines economic growth in rich countries.
c. businesses need poor people in other countries to hire as workers.
d. poverty impedes the development of a poor country's natural resources.
b
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Which of the following statements is true with regard to the relationship between religious identity and democracy?
A. The relationship between religious identity and democracy has high academic value but low practical relevance. B. All religions fundamentally foster the principles of democracy and religious freedom. C. The fact that religion is often used as a mobilizational tool by leaders makes it imperative to study its role in politics. D. Though religion, ethnicity, and nationalism are linked, religion is the least potent influencing factor of the three, according to Samuel Huntington. E. The majority of countries following Islam have emerged as the strongest advocates of democracy.
African Americans largely shifted towards what party after the New Deal?
A) ?Republican B) ?States' Rights Democrats C) ?American Indepdendent D) ?Democratic E) ?Green
Which of the following does not explain the absence of a vociferous antiwar movement in U.S. military engagements after the Vietnam War?
a. The small scale of post–Vietnam conflicts restricted mass opposition. b. As a result of the body bag syndrome, the mass public became largely disengaged from foreign affairs after the Vietnam War. c. The abrupt timing and short duration of post–Vietnam interventions did not allow opponents to mobilize. d. International support for some interventions gave the impending conflict legitimacy and tempered antiwar sentiments.
Which of the following grants bureaucracies the authority to issue regulations?
a. the General Accounting Office b. Congress c. the president d. the Internal Revenue Service