Many White,working-Class Citizens Failed to Vote in the 1968 and 1972

question 43

Multiple Choice

Many white,working-class citizens failed to vote in the 1968 and 1972 elections because they felt alienated by the centrality of which political issue?

• A)civil rights
• B)the Vietnam War
• C)the economy
• D)immigration
• E)youth protest

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Definitions:

Edgeworth Box

A diagram used in economics to show the distribution of resources and to find the optimal allocation for two individuals.

Contract Curve

In economics, it refers to the locus of optimal points of allocation of resources between two parties under the constraints of their respective utility functions.

Pareto Optimal

A state of allocation of resources in which it is impossible to make any one individual better off without making at least one individual worse off.

Initial Endowment

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