The national government contributes about one-quarter of all state and local revenues; however, more than 60 percent of these federal monies are passed to individual recipients such as those receiving Medicaid

Some democratic governments monopolize radio and television broadcasting or own and operate television networks

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

The U.S. and China are unlikely to use economic interdependence as a weapon against each other because __________

a. both countries have large militaries, and have built alliances against each other, suggesting that military globalization or interdependence affects economic interdependence here b. the countries would be likely to face strong sanction from the World Trade Organization (WTO) should they attempt to launch a trade war c. their economic interdependence is asymmetric, which often means that what is bad for one economy is also bad for the other d. the countries are too economically important to the rest of the world now, given their central role in the current globalized economy