Exam 2: Understanding Interests, interactions, and Institutions

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Does the spread of election monitoring mean that eventually most election systems will be fair and free? What other methods might be helpful beyond this informal institution?

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The norm of election monitoring could create better and stronger elections globally.However,because authoritarian states also use election monitoring (sometimes by less scrupulous monitoring teams)and still cheat,it is unclear whether it will actually cause a change.What might make the system more robust is to have a single set of monitors (who universally observe)seated in an international institution with a good reputation.

Does the United Nations have an institutional bias against the United States? In the General Assembly? In the Security Council?

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The United Nations Security Council is biased toward the United States because the United States has veto power over any resolutions.Conversely,the UN General Assembly is biased against the United States because the voting process is one country-one vote,regardless of power.

Cooperation is a type of:

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For the game below,what is the equilibrium (or equilibria)for A1 and A2? For the game below,what is the equilibrium (or equilibria)for A1 and A2?

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Which of the following is an example of a solution to a coordination problem?

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How did the norm of election monitoring spread even to less democratic elections?

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What is true if the status quo agreement is at point a? What is true if the status quo agreement is at point a?

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What does the triangle qba represent? What does the triangle qba represent?

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Which of the following is an example of a failed state?

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Which of the following is an example of an informal institution?

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An actor using agenda-setting power during bargaining:

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A person goes to college with the hope of improving his or her earning power and future income upon graduation.This is an example of which type of goal that an actor might have?

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Which of the following is an example of linkage?

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What is the purpose of setting clear standards of behavior?

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What is the Prisoner's Dilemma game,and why is mutual defection the expected outcome of the game?

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What is one effect of creating clear rules within institutions like the United Nations?

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Imposing some cost on others to reduce the value of the reversion outcome is known as:

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In international relations,actors can be any of the following EXCEPT:

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________ interactions are the simplest kind of cooperation between actors.

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When bargaining with others,one actor will have an advantage if:

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