Which Factors Can Explain the Survival of Minority Governments? Please

question 5

Multiple Choice

Which factors can explain the survival of minority governments? Please select all that apply.

• A) Minority governments are often successful in dividing the opposition.
• B) Minority governments are often perceived as being policy-seeking.
• C) Minority governments do not survive at all. They are in fact very unstable.
• D) Minority governments are often successful in occupying a specific ideological position.

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Conditional Claim

A statement that asserts the truth of something based on a condition being met or a hypothesis being true.

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An argument whose conclusion logically follows from its premises, ensuring that if the premises are true, the conclusion must also be true.

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