Latin America Gov't and Econ Review

Citizen Participation: What type of government system allows only one leader to have authority to make decisions?

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Confederate

• Oligarch

Citizen Participation: What type of government puts the decisions of government on the shoulders of its citizens?

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Confederate

• Oligarch

Brazil and Mexico have democracies that would be considered _____________ democracies.

• presidential

• parliamentary

• theocratic

• socratic

Typically democratic, Cuba has a ____________ system that is not democratic, but autocratic.

• parliamentary

• presidential

• confederate

• theocratic

Who is typically the head executive in a presidential democracy?

• the monarch

• the dictator

• the prime minister

• the president

Who is typically the head executive in a parliamentary democracy?

• the president

• the prime minister

• the monarch

• the mayor

The basic question(s) any economic system has......

• What is produced?

• How is it produced?

• For whom is it produced for?

• all of the above

In a traditional economy, who decides the answers to the 3 basic economic questions?

• elders/past customs

• adolescence/current trends

• the individual

• the dictator

In a (mixed) command economy, who decides the answers to the 3 basic economic questions?

• elders

• entrepreneurs

• the government

• adolescence

In a (mixed) market system, who typically decides the answers to the 3 basic economic questions?

• entrepreneurs/private citizens

• government

• royalty

• elders