What is the focus of contemporary American political campaigns?
a. Parties play the central role.
b. Parties play a larger role than they did in the 1950s.
c. Parties provide candidates with most of their information about public opinion.
d. Candidates, rather than parties, have assumed center stage.
e. Neither candidates nor parties are very important actors.
Ans: d. Candidates, rather than parties, have assumed center stage.
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a. Democratic states never (or rarely) go to war against other democracies. b. Democratic states are slightly less inclined to go to war (against anyone) than nondemocracies. c. Nondemocracies rarely go to war with other nondemocracies. d. Democracies and nondemocracies almost never go to war against each other.