Even Though Currently Powerful Countries Like Germany,Brazil,and Japan Would Like

question 46

Multiple Choice

Even though currently powerful countries like Germany,Brazil,and Japan would like a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council,they have not started their own competing international organization and have kept their protests within the United Nations' system.This is an example of what?

• A)It is often cheaper and easier to use existing institutions even if they do not exactly match an actor's preferences.
• B)Institutions with self-enforcement are more likely to last.
• C)Institutions are created to reflect the biases of those who have the most power at that time.
• D)Institutions are most effective when they serve multiple roles,such as assisting in verifying compliance and reducing costs of joint decision making.

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Definitions:

ALI Rule

Legal principle stating that a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if he or she lacks the capacity to appreciate the criminality (wrongfulness) of the act or to conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law as a result of mental disease.

Irresistible Impulse Rule

A legal defense asserting that a defendant was unable to control their actions due to a mental illness, making them not responsible for the criminal behavior.

M'Naghten Rule

A standard for defining legal insanity, which asserts that a defendant must be found mentally incapable of understanding the nature of his actions or distinguishing right from wrong at the time of the offense.

Hallucinations

Perceptions in any sensory modality without an external stimulus, creating experiences that seem real but are not.