Our Attitudes and Values Inevitably Affect How We Act, and It

question 181

Multiple Choice

Our attitudes and values inevitably affect how we act, and it is the same with politics. The functioning of political institutions at least partly reflects the attitudes, norms, and expectations of the citizenry. Thus the English use their constitutional institutions to sustain their liberty, while the same institutions were turned into instruments of repression in South Africa and Northern Ireland. Gabriel Almond, et al., Comparative Politics Today, 7^th ed.

• A) Argument, conclusion: The same institutions were turned ... Northern Ireland.
• B) Argument, conclusion: Our attitudes and values ... same with politics.
• C) Argument, conclusion: The English use ... South Africa and Northern Ireland.
• D) Argument, conclusion: The functioning of political institutions ... the citizenry.
• E) Nonargument.

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Definitions:

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