Governments Can Try to Lower the Frequency and Intensity of Protest

question 8

Multiple Choice

Governments can try to lower the frequency and intensity of protest by engaging in:

• A)resource mobilization
• B)political opportunism
• C)social control
• D)all of these choices
• E)none of these choices

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