Suppose a country's economy has recently suffered a contraction and a spike in unemployment. A Keynesian would recommend __________.
a. increasing the minimum wage
b. raising tariffs and lowering income taxes
c. decreasing interest rates on government loans
d. borrowing money to spend on new public works projects
Authoritarian systems that are often in the category of failed states deliberately confuse rule of law with rule by law, which essentially means that __________.
a. authorities adhere to the rule of law with no practical exceptions whatsoever
b. authorities use the law to achieve their ends, but are themselves above the law
c. there is an absence of any legal tradition in the country's history
d. the people play the most important role in shaping laws
Mahatma Gandhi's movement in India illustrated that __________.
a. peaceful movements are more likely to succeed than violent ones
b. a government always responds to the public opinion of the population
c. a government responds to public opinion when its image is threatened
d. public opinion must be shaped into a non-violent protest movement to be successful
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