Identify and explain the significance of the Mexico City policy. How have U.S. presidents responded to the policy since its inception?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify the Mexico City policy as a policy first approved by the Reagan administration that prohibited U.S. economic assistance to foreign family planning agencies that offer abortion counseling or services. Answers should also identify how every Republican president since Reagan has adopted the policy, while every Democratic president has rejected it by executive order.
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American political parties since the 19th century have
A) declined. B) increased. C) stayed neutral. D) remained consistent. E)disappeared.
When dictators liberalize in an attempt to co-opt opposition groups, they are trying to strengthen their hold on power. If they miscalculate and assume that the opposition is weak when in fact it is strong, their liberalizing attempts might embolden the opposition groups and eventually lead to a democratic transition. But if the opposition group is actually weak, and the dictator mistakenly thinks it is strong, then the dictator will not dare to liberalize in the first place, which is unfortunate for civil society whose members could have benefited from the liberalization. If you were a member of the opposition (civil society) and you were interested in a transition to democracy, or at least a liberalization of the regime, would you be better off in the situation in which the dictator
(liberalizers) knew for sure the exact strength of civil society, or in the situation in which the dictator was uncertain whether civil society was strong or not? A. The opposition is always better off under conditions of certainty. B. The opposition is always better off under conditions of uncertainty. C. It would depend on whether the opposition was strong or weak. A weak opposition would prefer certainty, but a strong opposition would probably prefer uncertainty.
______ often have unique educational themes.
a. Private schools b. Charter schools c. Educational associations d. After-school activities
The largest working subunit of an executive department that performs specific functions is called a(n)
a. bureau. b. cabinet. c. agency. d. department. e. service.