After World War I, many senators favored international engagement but opposed the League of Nations for fear that it would
a. give the president too much power by granting him a vote in the League without congressional input.
b. give the United States too low of a profile on the international stage.
c. require an economic commitment to restructuring nations in which the United States had no interest.
d. subject American citizens to a European despot.
e. threaten congressional war powers by committing them in advance to defend other nations in the League.
ANS: E
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a. Opposition parties were radically different from the LDP, and their governments were too controversial. b. Japanese voters tended to be liberal, preferring change and debate, and thus they always came back to the LDP. c. The LDP party factions advocated policy alternatives rather than the promotion of leaders to positions of power. d. It presided over the economic boom that began in the 1950s and was able to argue that it was the party of experience and economic prosperity.
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia
a. employed economic "shock therapy" to transition to liberal democracy, which transformed Russia painfully but helped to reduce nationalism. b. rejected the economic "shock therapy" approach recommended by the IMF, pursuing instead a path of economic autocracy. c. employed economic "shock therapy" to transition to liberal democracy but quickly changed to a more gradual choice. d. attempted to change the political makeup to a more liberal democracy but did not renounce the planned economy of the Soviet state. e. failed to attempt the economic "shock therapy" recommended by the IMF and thus saw its economy self-destruct.
How can descriptive statistics be defined?
a) describing elements of a distribution b) relating the data to a larger population c) developing a research question d) identical to inferential statistics
When the United Nations Security Council authorizes the use of force against a state found to be violating international law, this is an example of
A) extradition enforcement. B) horizontal enforcement. C) national enforcement. D) temporary enforcement. E) vertical enforcement.