A citizen who casts a ballot for a Republican candidate for president and a Democratic candidate for Senate is displaying which of the following?
a. straightparty voting
b. disloyal voting
c. preferential voting
d. splitticket voting
e. strategic voting
Question -2-California citizens successfully launched and passed an initiative that reduced property taxes by 57 percent. This is an example of which of the following?
a. direct democracy
b. federalism
c. indirect democracy
d. a public referendum
e. representative democracy
Question -3-Before the American invasion in 2003, Iraq would have been considered which of the following?
a. a representative democracy
b. an oligarchy
c. a monarchy
d. a failed state
e. an autocracy
Question -4-Generally speaking, is a capitalist economic system, such as the United States, conducive to the provision of public goods?
a. No, because the costs of providing public goods are much higher than the benefits of doing so.
b. No, because the demand for public goods is simply not there, and capitalist economies operate based on the laws of supply and demand.
c. Yes, because capitalist states also tend to be democratic, and in democracies people care about each other.
d. Yes, because the great demand for public goods will ensure that the market will supply them.
e. Yes, because the inherent competition in capitalist systems will lead to public goods of higher quality.
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