Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. In every election, one of the parties benefits from the state of the nation’s economy and voters’ judgments about the nation’s well-being.
2. The United States replaced its republican government with a democratic one.
3. Many Americans today do not feel faithfully represented even though the United States holds more elections for public offices than any other nation in the world.
4. The argument for limiting suffrage boiled down to this: Only the independent and virtuous were fit to govern, and the best evidence of independence and virtue was being a property-holding, White, Protestant male.
5. If there is no real chance that a vote will be decisive, it is of no consequence whether the vote is right or wrong. Ignorance, like abstention from voting, is rational.
1.true
2.false
3.true
4.true
5.true
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As explained by Jervis, why might the causal link between democracy and peace be difficult to establish?
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a. fewer participants. b. counterbalancing. c. mixed subject designs. d. multiple independent variables.
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