The British Civil Service is a ______.

a. meritocracy
b. aristocracy
c. patronage system
d. oligarchy


a. meritocracy

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Which is a possible explanation for the failure of scientific sampling method in the 1948 U.S. election when Dewey was solidly predicted to defeat Truman?

A) The error was in assuming that respondents who said they were decided would wind up voting in the same ratio as those who had already undecided. B) The error was in assuming that respondents who said they were undecided would wind up voting in the same ratio as those who had already decided. C) The error was in assuming that non-respondents would wind up voting in the same ratio as those who had already decided. D) The error was in assuming that Democrats who said they were undecided would wind up voting in the same ratio as those Republicans who had already decided.

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Which constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?

a. the Fifteenth Amendment b. the Seventeenth Amendment c. the Nineteenth Amendment d. the Twenty-third Amendment e. the Twenty-sixth Amendment

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The United States has the greatest degree of income inequality among industrialized countries

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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The late 1980s were significant for communist nations because of all of the following EXCEPT

a. the Berlin Wall came down. b. communist reformers took power in Hungary. c. protestors occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square for a month. d. the communist government in Poland collapsed. e. Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba.

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