The Department of Agriculture invites corn farmers and environmental interest groups to develop new rules on the use of pesticides in corn crops. This is an example of what type of regulatory process?

Whereas “fabrication” is used as a criticism of multiracial group building as a result of its constructed nature, it carries with it a secondary meaning of ___________ that suggests our perception of groups as real and substantial entities.

A. theatricality B. falsity C. deception D. fraudulence

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Among authoritarian regimes, personalist regimes tend to suffer from the problem of succession more than other regimes. 2. While Russia does not have a long tradition of protests in the street, it has a much stronger tradition of sustained organization of groups in civil society. 3. China has evolved from a communist regime into a modernizing authoritarian regime. 4. The supreme leader in Iran must be a member of the clergy. 5. For China, the rise of a market system alongside a one-party regime has led to a weakening of its institutions due to corruption.