Current obstacles to further democratization in Russia include
a. a weak political party system.
b. authoritarian tendencies in the political culture.
c. Putin’s concentration of political power.
d. All of the above are true.
Answer: d
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A) Increase the number of participants. B) Decrease the number of conditions to be manipulated. C) Use laboratory animals instead of human participants. D) Use several observers to record participants' responses.
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c. accepted the policy of full employment. d. led to the expansion of the social welfare state and its services. e. was only promoted by a succession of left-leaning Labour governments until the 2008 global economic crisis.
The greatest concerns that have arisen in recent years regarding the death penalty are related to which of the following?
A. The lethal injection method used to cause the convicted person's death B. The execution of individuals that happened to be juveniles when the crime was committed C. The need to create a more precise judicial process to decide death penalty cases D. A desire to convert cases related to the death penalty from the state courts to the federal courts E. The fact that a larger number of minorities are executed when compared to white convicts