What was the main outcome of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) case?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: It opened up the possibilities of super PACs, which can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence the outcome of an election.

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Peace operations of the United Nations include __________.

A. war regulation B. use of force to protect shipping C. supervision of elections D. intervening in ethnic conflicts to create a cease-fire

Political Science

What does Ratner see as this century's "great trend in international law"?

a. increasing state membership in international organizations b. increasing movement of soft laws to hard laws in international norms c. increasing power of the UN Security Council at the expense of the power of nonmember states d. increasing international regulation of more and more issues once typically seen as part of state domestic jurisdiction e. involuntary loss of state control over a country's own domestic issues as a result of hard laws imposed and enforced by international organizations

Political Science

Which of the following helps to explain why a country's economy may be negatively affected by an economic crisis in another country?

a. a negative balance of trade b. a positive balance of trade c. isolationism d. interdependency

Political Science

Imagine that an analyst is interested in understanding why civil wars occur. If the analyst chooses to study only cases in which civil wars have occurred (e.g., in the Congo, Greece, Spain, Sri Lanka, the United States, and Yugoslavia), then she is using

A. Mill’s Method of Agreement. B. Mill’s Method of Difference. C. Mill’s Method of Agreement and Method of Difference.

Political Science