Which of the following describes the group dubbed the “Whiskey Ring” during the Grant administration?
a. His inner circle of advisors, so named because of Grant’s famous fondness for whiskey.
b. A group of revenue officials, all political appointees, who conspired with distillers to evade taxes on a massive scale.
c. A group who planned to invade the neighboring territories to the west and set up a new country, so named because they shipped weapons hidden in whiskey barrels.
d. A group of treasonous Union soldiers who were convicted and hung as a result of their use of alcohol smuggling to support the Confederacy.
b. A group of revenue officials, all political appointees, who conspired with distillers to evade taxes on a massive scale.
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In which of the following ways are differential and experimental researches similar?
A) Causality can be inferred from both. B) All variables are manipulated variables. C) The same statistical procedures can be used for both. D) They are both ex post facto designs.
Brazil offers a challenge to the study of comparative politics because of all of the following EXCEPT
a. it has had periods of both centralization and decentralization, both of which have strengthened and weakened the state's capacity. b. it demonstrates how the lack of coherent party systems and electoral institutions can endanger democracy. c. even while the country has developed economically, it has become a more socially unequal country. d. the complex divisions that afflict the country's collective identities challenge attempts to address its problems. e. despite its transition to democracy, the constant threat of military intervention highlights the fragile nature of its political system.