Brazil offers a challenge to the study of comparative politics because of all of the following EXCEPT
a. it has had periods of both centralization and decentralization, both of which have strengthened and weakened the state's capacity.
b. it demonstrates how the lack of coherent party systems and electoral institutions can endanger democracy.
c. even while the country has developed economically, it has become a more socially unequal country.
d. the complex divisions that afflict the country's collective identities challenge attempts to address its problems.
e. despite its transition to democracy, the constant threat of military intervention highlights the fragile nature of its political system.
e
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Marshall's ruling in Marbury v. Madison is a testament to his strategic political skills for which of the following reasons?
A. It gave Marshall's political principal, Marbury, virtually everything he sought. B. Marshall actually had another justice write the opinion and Marshall dissented, thus avoiding blame for the controversy. C. It led to Marshall ultimately being chosen as Jefferson's Vice President in his second term. D. It did not command the other political actors to do anything to affirm the Court's authority.
According to Thurgood Marshall, this was the one person the "poor Negro sharecropper" could rely on
a. President Kennedy b. President Eisenhower c. Martin Luther King d. Chief Justice Warren
How many states ratified the Equal Rights Amendment?
A. nearly three-fourths B. about half C. only a few D. none of them E. all but three of them
According to Mann and Ornstein, __________ played a central role in creating the dysfunctional mess of wasteful spending during Obama's first term
a. the legislature b. The Tea Party c. republicans d. democrats e. interest groups