Industrial policy refers to
a. the use of state resources to promote the development of certain economic sectors.
b. the state setting goals for particular industries.
c. the state purchasing stock in particular industries.
d. the regulation of industrial practices.
e. regulating competition between large industrial firms.
Q. 2Authoritarianism is worse for the people of a state than totalitarianism.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 3In efforts to reform negative advertising,
a. many newspapers and websites report regularly on the content, presentation, and relative accuracy ofcampaign advertising.
b. some candidates intimidated major newspapers by taking them to court.
c. political parties have created fair campaign practices panels to pass judgment on campaign ads.
d. the Democratic Party has brought court action against Republican candidates in four states for defamation ofcharacter of their candidates.
Q. 4France's statist economic approach
a. began with the formation of the Fifth Republic and lasted until the 1980s.
b. was opposed by conservative politicians.
c. began under a communist government.
d. helped to bring about rapid economic growth and an increase in incomes.
e. began under the Fourth Republic but was abandoned under the Fifth Republic.
Q. 5The only standard for government legitimacy is the consent of the governed.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 6Negative advertising aimed at a political opponent is
a. free of danger of a backlash against the side employing it.
b. a powerful tool in the hands of clever and aggressive politicians but always in danger of backfiring.
c. unlikely to be picked up and believed by the general public in this age of television.
d. necessarily not true.
Q. 7Indicative planning refers to
a. the state establishing a national plan identifying desirable priorities for economic and social development.
b. the state selecting particular, or indicated, industrial and financial firms that were privately owned to take over in an attempt to pursue economic modernization.
c. the practice of the French president indicating his economic preferences in an annual speech to the parliament so that it might plan its activity accordingly.
d. a particular kind of neoliberal economic strategy.
e. the common practice of governments indicating their preferences before an international summit.
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