Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Despite a representative democracy at the national level, the United States experiences direct democracy across all state governments.
2. Arrow’s theorem shows us that elections cannot be the perfect means of making decisions.
3. Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972.
4. Democracy quite literally means “rule by the elites.”


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False

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