Which of the Following Best Describes the Minimalist Paradigm

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the minimalist paradigm?

• A)Individuals have sufficient political knowledge to vote and take political action.
• B)People have insufficient capacity to acquire political knowledge and cannot make rational political decisions.
• C)Most people fall short of what we expect them to know, think about, and pay attention to in the complicated world of politics and policy.
• D)Most citizens do not need to acquire political information or civic education, and governments run with minimal interaction from their citizenry.

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Definitions:

Heritable Changes

Alterations in a genetic material that can be passed on from one generation to another.

Lamarck

A French naturalist known for his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, a concept preceding Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Biogeography

Study of patterns in the geographic distribution of species and communities.

Distribution

The process by which goods get distributed or spread out across different locations, or the statistical spread of values in a dataset.