The period known as the Emergency refers to
a. the period following the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi that left the Indian independence movement leaderless.
b. the period following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru that left the future direction of the Congress Party in question.
c. a short period in which many formal democratic rights were suspended, and the country was ruled in an authoritarian fashion.
d. the short period between the two periods in which Indira Gandhi served as the prime minister.
e. a period of mass migration and interethnic violence that followed the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan.
c
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a. franchise b. property c. corporate income d. severance e. motor fuels
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A. The central government of Sisliboa vesting the entire duty of charting, implementing, and executing welfare policies to its local governments B. The central government of Funjiba creating, implementing, and executing its national education policy all by itself C. The national government of Girinal outsourcing its policy implementation duties to qualified expatriates living in the country D. The national government of Hunsland budgeting and charting a welfare policy and its state and local governments executing it E. The central government of Ikiba outsourcing its policy implementation activities to policy institutes outside the country
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c. terrorism would be more likely to increase under democratic regimes than under authoritarianism in somestates. d. authoritarianism is a better and more efficient form of government.
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A. Opinion leadership B. Political socialization C. Agenda setting D. Peer grouping E. Consensus building