Given the preference orderings listed below, what would the result be of a pair-wise contest between the spending choices education and medical?

Imagine that three city council members are trying to decide how to spend a surplus.The options currently being debated are (i) spend it on improving primary education in the municipality, (ii) spend it on improving the level of medical care offered by the local hospital, or (iii) lower local taxes and use the surplus to cover the costs of existing programs.The council employs majority rule to make its decisions.The councillors have the following preference orderings over the spending choices:







Assume that the councillors hold a round-robin tournament that pits each alternative against every other alternative in a series of pair-wise votes.The winner is the alternative that wins the most contests.Based on this information, answer the following four questions.



A. education

B. medical

C. tax cut

D. it would be a tie


A. education

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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__________ is a political system in which the national government shares power with local governments

A) ?A unitary government B) ?Federalism C) ?A confederation D) ?A parliamentarian government E) ?A republic

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