In the postwar era, what has been the most common way that authoritarian rulers have left office?
a. Resigned
b. Ousted
c. Assassinated
d. Lost election
e. Executed
b
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Karl Polanyi argued in his classic study The Great Transformation that
a. the market forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and globalization in the nineteenth century produced economic gains that encouraged greater stability through the creation of a middle class. b. the market forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and globalization in the nineteenth century diminished the economic gains of the upper classes while redistributing them to the lower economic tiers of society. c. the market forces unleashed by the Industrial Revolution and globalization in the nineteenth century produced great economic gains as well as social disruptions and political reactions. d. the Industrial Revolution and globalization in the nineteenth century caused social disruptions not because of increased market forces but because of a perceived need by governments to enforce stability. e. the great social disruptions and political reactions caused by the Industrial Revolution and globalization proves that there is an automatic relationship between inequality and political reaction.
Perhaps the most significant fact about primary elections in congressional politics today is
A) ?the stangnation of the primary process. B) ?the banning candidates declared to be "extremist" from party races. C) ?the increasing cost of entry into primaries. D) the increase in competition for party nominations. E) the decline in competition for party nominations.
Article __________ of the Constitution gives Congress the power to tax, borrow money, raise armies, declare war, create the federal courts, regulate commerce, coin money, and "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper."
A. I B. II C. III D. V
Of the following, which form of participation are Americans most likely to engage in?
a. volunteering with a campaign b. protesting— c. writing letters to the editor d. contacting government officials