Drawing on the insights from the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty theory, what inference could we make about the government of the repressive East German regime during the height of the cold war (say, the 1960s through the early 1980s)?

A. The government was dependent.
B. The government was autonomous.
C. We aren’t able to tell if the government was dependent or autonomous based on what we could observe at the time.

C. We aren’t able to tell if the government was dependent or autonomous based on what we could observe at the time.