Which of the Following Is NOT True

question 30

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true?

• A) Within its corporatist structure, the PRI functioned through extended networks that distributed public resources to lower level activists who controlled votes at the local level.
• B) Power within the PRI was highly decentralized allowing each of the sector organizations to respond mainly to its members' interests.
• C) The organization and activity of the PRI encouraged the development of patron-client relations as those with ambitions for public office would seek to form networks of supporters from above (patrons), to whom they delivered votes, and supporters from below (clients), to whom the delivered public resources.
• D) Over time, the corporate interest groups within the PRI came to be identified with corruption, bossism, and the lack of effective participation.
• E) For well over half a century, the PRI's system of trading public resources for political allegiance worked remarkably well as indicated by the fact that PRI candidates regularly won by significant majorities.

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