Yeltsin's market reform policies involved all of the following EXCEPT
a. lifting price controls.
b. encouraging small business and entrepreneurship.
c. privatizing many state industries.
d. opening the economy to global influences.
e. deregulation.
Q. 2The S-CHIP program is
a. a new electronic health records program.
b. a children's health program funded by the federal government and states.
c. former president George W. Bush's primary health care initiative.
d. a children's health program funded by the federal government and states and former president George W.Bush's primary health care initiative.
Q. 3The command economy under the Soviet system
a. failed to reduce economic inequality.
b. achieved rapid industrialization.
c. involved state-directed economic planning, but not state controls on pricing.
d. opened the country to foreign investment.
e. all of these.
Q. 4In-kind programs are
a. special welfare programs that were recommended by President Bush in the early 1990s to bring about akinder and gentler nation they are funded by a special government trust fund.
b. the payment of noncash benefits such as government food stamps, Medicaid, and housing to those eligible.
c. available in only a limited number of states that have created the necessary administrative framework.
d. categories of social welfare that provide help in the form of government checks.
Q. 5Electoral authoritarianism refers to
a. the president's office managing political competition through a dominant party.
b. electoral fraud.
c. allowing only one party to run for political office.
d. establishing a loyal opposition party that is unlikely to actively opposing government policy.
e. outlawing all political parties except one.
Q. 6Public assistance programs today primarily include
a. direct cash transfers.
b. in-kind benefits.
c. social insurance.
d. All of the above are true.
Q. 7Soft authoritarianism refers to
a. a tightening of political controls combined with a loosening of economic controls.
b. the re-emergence of the communist party as a political force in Russia.
c. Russia's increasingly militant actions in its near abroad.
d. a system of informal and formal mechanisms that assure the dominance of a ruling group despite the existence of some forms of political competition and opposition.
e. the use of repressive political controls designed to limit opposition.
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