The tipping, or threshold, models presented in Chapter 8 are used to explain why the public protests in Eastern Europe in 1989 were a surprise to most political observers, both inside and outside of Eastern Europe. According to the reading and lectures, why are revolutions always going to be a surprise?
A. revolutions tend to be irrational
B. preference falsification
C. revolutionary cascades
D. none of these
B. preference falsification
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a. one b. two c. three d. four
The individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act that is designed to prevent free riding draws on what element of the Framers’ toolkit?
a. agenda setting b. command authority c. majority rule d. prisoner’s dilemma
Why is it logical for citizens to not vote?
a. The benefits are collective and they enjoy the payoff even if they have not helped to produce them by voting. b. The benefits are individual, but since governments do not provide many tangible benefits, the costs of voting outweigh the benefits. c. Votes do not really matter because politicians can manipulate the public into believing whatever they want. d. The system of separated institutions sharing powers provides more influence to the unelected branches of the government, such as the judiciary and the bureaucracy.
The State Bar of Texas has the authority to take all the following actions, ??EXCEPT to
A) suspend attorneys. B) disbar attorneys. C) discipline attorneys. D) impeach attorneys.