Without Rules and Procedures for Promoting Successful Collective Action, as Participants

question 13

Multiple Choice

Without rules and procedures for promoting successful collective action, as participants and preferences multiply ______.

• A) government grows more efficient
• B) broadly acceptable collective decisions are made more rapidly
• C) unstructured negotiation rarely yields a collective decision all parties can accept
• D) the institutions of governance become less important

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Definitions:

Focus

In geometry and optics, the point where rays or waves meet or from which they diverge, especially after reflection or refraction.

Function

A relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs with the property that each input is related to exactly one output.

Vertices

Plural of vertex, referring to the corners or angular points where two or more edges meet in a geometrical shape or graph.

Center

In geometry, it refers to the midpoint of a circle or sphere, equidistant from all points on the perimeter or surface.