During the 1990s, which Russian political party was the most popular and won the most votes in parliamentary elections?
a. All Russia Party
b. Liberal Democrats
c. Communists
d. United Russia Party
e. Russia's Choice Party
Q. 2Perhaps in an effort to avoid dominance of a political party controlled by one ethnic group, in which country must the president win at least 25 percent of the vote in two-thirds of the country's political regions, in addition to a majority of the vote overall?
a. Nigeria
b. Brazil
c. Iran
d. Mexico
e. Russia
Q. 3Which of the following led a party with a center-left ideology?
a. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
b. Boris Yeltsin
c. Helmut Kohl
d. Olusegun Obasanjo
e. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Q. 4Nigeria has a
a. one-party system.
b. one-party dominant system.
c. two-party system.
d. two-and-a-half party system.
e. multiparty system.
Q. 5Party organization theory suggests that
a. the fortunes of major political parties remain stable for long periods followed by a dramatic change.
b. FPTP electoral systems generate two-party systems.
c. understanding parties requires considering the ways in which they are similar to and different from businesses, interest groups, and government agencies.
d. parties that adopt a range of ideologically moderate policies designed to capture broad segments of the population are the most successful.
e. a country's party system is less a function of its electoral rules than of its underlying socioeconomic divisions.
Q. 6The party that has become the leading party in Mexico at the federal level, as its candidates have won the last two presidential contests, is best described as
a. catch-all.
b. pro business, but secular.
c. clientist.
d. pro-Catholic and socialist.
e. both pro-business and pro-Catholic.
Q. 7Which country, often considered a classic example of a one-party dominant system, had a one-party dominant system for most of the twentieth century, but currently does not have such a system?
a. Germany
b. Russia
c. China
d. Mexico
e. Nigeria