A. maintain strong national identities in spite of operating abroad
B. may need to avoid alienating non-American workers and customers
C. provide preferential treatment for American employees
D. play an increasingly important role in the structuring of the division of labor in the world economy
Related Mcqs:
- Which type of theorists would argue that relentless class conflict between capitalists and workers boom and bust economic cycles and intercorporate conflict place limits on the ability of the capitalist class to manipulate political institutions at will?
A. instrumental conflict theorists
B. reactionary conflict theorists
C. structural conflict theorists
D. dysfunctional conflict theorists - Power legitimated by the sanctity of age-old customs is called ________ authority ?
A. characteristic
B. charismatic
C. legal-rational
D. traditional - What proportion of the world’s societies today are thought to be authoritarian rather than democratic ?
A. about half
B. one fifth
C. one third
D. one tenth - In What year did the 15 constituent republics of the USSR declare independence thereby ending the Soviet Union as a functioning state ?
A. 1989
B. 1998
C. 2001
D. 1991 - Which political figure first called for a Untied States of Europe ?
A. Adolf Hitler
B. Winston Churchill
C. Charles De Gaulle
D. Harry S Truman - Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding the state ?
A. The state has existed throughout human history
B. The existence of the state requires that some people are able to devote time and energy to organizing power resources
C. External factors such as threats and trading partners played no part in the rise of the state
D. The production of a social surplus hindered the rise of the state - Why is force not he most effective means for political rule ?
A. Force is very efficient but also very costly
B. Honor is denied to those who rule by force alone
C. The elite’s ideals are fulfilled but tainted by use of force
D. Force is the most effective means for political rule - In reviewing capitalism worldwide following the downfall of communism in the Soviet Union some observers suggest that_____________?
A. capitalist nations fully agree on the merits of capitalism practiced by all developed nations
B. Russia Eastern Europe Latin America and Asia have fully accepted and are practicing the style of capitalism practiced in the United States
C. in dynamic Asian nations (e.g. Japan Singapore Hong Kong South Korea and Taiwan) government intervention in economic life has resulted in a “government-business symbiosis ” different from that in Europe and the United States
D. the performance of the Asian economy and financial institutions in late 1997 and early 1998 strongly supports the “government-business /state capitalism/communal capitalism economic arrangement - Which theorist sees power as the chance that you will get your way even against opponents ?
A. Steven Lukes
B. Max Weber
C. Michel Foucault
D. Jean Baudrillard - What is the term used by Francis Fukuyama (1992) to describe the triumph of Western-style democracy has over other forms of government ?
A. the end of history
B. the rise of neoliberalism
C. the fall of communism
D. the birth of nationalism
