According to the liberal perspective, what are collective goods and how can they lead to cooperation?

What will be an ideal response?


Varies. Collective goods are goals that are indivisible and cannot be appropriated by anyone. Examples include clean air, the global climate, peace and security, and wealth (under certain circumstances). Since they are non-zero-sum goods and everyone benefits when they are pursued, they can lead to cooperation among states.

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What is the primary lesson that can be drawn from the scandal in the Veterans Administration in 2014?

A. Concerted oversight efforts by Congress can reduce the dangers of agency loss. B. A strong president can overcome the tendency of bureaucracies to engage in hidden action. C. Implementing a system of tenure review for bureaucrats has improved responsiveness. D. The greatest vulnerability of the principals to the agents is an asymmetry in information.

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The founders of the American republic believed that most of the power that would be exercised by a national government should be in the hands of

A. the chief executive. B. the legislature. C. the electoral college. D. the bureaucracy. E. the judiciary.

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A researcher examines four groups of participants on the effects of diet (two conditions: high protein and normal) and exercise (two levels: modest and moderate) on grades. s

Participants are exposed to one of four combinations of the independent variables and are measured once on the dependent variable, which produces score data. The proper statistical procedure would be a(n) A) one-way ANOVA. B) factorial ANOVA. C) repeated measures ANOVA. D) correlated t-test.

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Progressive income taxation means that

a. those with higher incomes pay a higher percentage of tax. b. all citizens pay the same amount in taxes regardless of income. c. taxes on investments that generate additional revenue is higher than those on income. d. those with higher incomes pay a lower percentage of tax. e. taxes increase as governmental spending increases.

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