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Question 41

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The table shown displays voters' preferences in an election. If a pairwise majority vote is held to determine which school project gets funded, and the first pair to be voted on is the gym and library, which option will win overall?

A) Library
B) Computer lab
C) Gym
D) It is impossible to predict which option will win.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Question 42

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Suppose everyone in a town votes that they prefer to spend the budget on improved public transportation systems over public parks. According to the criterion of independence of irrelevant alternatives, if a third option not likely to win, like building a new public zoo, is included in the vote, the preference for public transportation spending should _______.

A) stay the same
B) change in favor of the new option
C) change, although we cannot know what the new preference would be
D) change in favour of park spending

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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Question 43

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The table shown displays voters' preferences in an election. If a pairwise majority vote is held, and Anna sets the agenda for votes, which pair will she put up for vote first?

When voting preferences become more complicated than those assumed by the median-voter theorem:

When engaging in collective action, the larger the group the:

_______ countries have explicit requirements about the number of parties that can participate in an election.

Which economist defined the characteristics of an ideal voting system?

The table shown displays voters' preferences in an election. If a pairwise majority vote is held to determine which school project gets funded, and the first pair to be voted on is the lab and the library, which voter will be happiest with the outcome?

When the free rider problem affects political advocacy:

The table shown displays voters' preferences in an election. If a pairwise majority vote is held, which option will win overall?

Compared to two-party systems, proportional-representation systems are thought to:

The median-voter theorem can help explain why politicians tend to change their position on a given issue over the course of an election from:

In the United States presidents cannot hold more than:

The table shown displays voters' preferences in an election. If a pairwise majority vote is held, and Yanir sets the agenda for votes, which pair will he put up for vote first?

Suppose a political candidate is running for office, and the primary policy issue at stake is the fraction of the locality's budget that will be allocated toward public schools. Forty percent of voters prefer the amount to be 10 percent of the budget, 15 percent of voters prefer 20 percent, and 45 percent of voters prefer 25 percent. According to the median-voter theorem, the candidate will be in support of public school spending as _______ percent of the budget.

If two groups disagree about a policy, the group with higher benefits per person is:

Plurality voting fails which of the criteria for an ideal voting system?

The table shown displays voters' preferences in an election. If a pairwise majority vote is held to determine which school project gets funded, and Enrique sets the agenda for votes, which pair will he put up for vote first?

In considering the criteria for an ideal voting system, an irrelevant alternative refers to:

Pairwise majority voting entails: