Petrostates, like those around the Persian Gulf, are not ripe for democracy but are ripe for overthrow.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Rigged elections in nations like Zimbabwe confirm the rule of any variety of parties.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Government support for education, crop subsidies, infrastructure, and scientific research are all programs that liberals claim
a) are consistent with laissez-faire principles. b) have helped economic growth. c) exemplify regulatory foolishness. d) have received excessive funding.
Postcolonial leaders having picked up socialist views while students in Europe contributed to the proliferation of authoritarian regimes in developing nations.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
All of the following are examples that a liberal might cite of the human costs of the market EXCEPT:
a) One million people died in the Irish Potato Famine that government policy could have alleviated. b) In the 1910s, 25,000 workers were killed annually on the job in the United States. c) In 1985, an earthquake shook Mexico City, and close to 10,000 people died. d) Factories poured their toxic wastes into the nation's water, soil, and air, endangering people's health.
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