In practice, the United States has a mixed free-enterprise system in which both private industry and government play important roles

If politicians are purely office seeking, what type of government would they prefer to form?

A. connected coalition B. least minimal winning coalition C. connected minimal winning coalition D. minimal winning coalition

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

1. Duverger’s theory predicts that if a country with a homogeneous society (few cleavages) uses permissive electoral rules, then it will have many parties. 2. Duverger’s theory predicts that if a country with a homogeneous society (few cleavages) uses disproportional electoral rules, then it will have many parties. 3. The results of empirical tests of Duverger’s theory show that increasing ethnic heterogeneity always leads to more legislative parties, regardless of the permissiveness of the electoral system. 4. Posner’s study of the Chewas and Tumbukas in Zambia and Malawi suggests that ethnic groups in Africa nearly always organize politically along ethnic lines, unlike ethnic groups in other parts of the world, who are typically more responsive to the logic of minimal winning coalitions.