In its most narrow sense, government refers to
a. a set of rules that determine the way decisions are made.
b. a political system's chief executive and cabinet officials, particularly in parliamentary systems.
c. a large collective of people who are connected in some meaningful way.
d. a group of people that shares a particular form of identity that unites and binds them together.
e. the instruments of state sovereignty.
B
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