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What did early suffrage movements mainly aim to remove?Read the answer and worked solution →Liberal democracy is also called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which feature is common in liberal democracies?Read the answer and worked solution →Under liberal democracy, legitimate power rests on which laws?Read the answer and worked solution →Liberal democracy's origins and name trace back to which era?Read the answer and worked solution →Which freedom can liberal democracies restrict, for example to limit hate speech?Read the answer and worked solution →In direct democracy, how do people decide policies?Read the answer and worked solution →Which other name is given to direct democracy?Read the answer and worked solution →Social science is one of the branches of which larger field?Read the answer and worked solution →Which discipline studies the production, distribution and consumption of wealth?Read the answer and worked solution →Who set out a classic brief definition of economics in 1932?Read the answer and worked solution →Economics has two broad branches. Which pair names them?Read the answer and worked solution →In microeconomics, what is the unit of analysis?Read the answer and worked solution →Which branch of economics studies an economy as a whole?Read the answer and worked solution →What does positive economics mainly seek to do?Read the answer and worked solution →Geography can generally be divided into how many main sub-disciplines?Read the answer and worked solution →Which geography branch studies geographic technologies?Read the answer and worked solution →What is history, as a field of study?Read the answer and worked solution →A distinction is usually drawn between the social sciences and which other field?Read the answer and worked solution →What do interpretivist social scientists often use instead of empirically falsifiable theories?Read the answer and worked solution →Social research methods can be classed as which two types?Read the answer and worked solution →What is a sample in social research?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is a census often infeasible for a very large population?Read the answer and worked solution →In positivist research, what is done with sample statistics?Read the answer and worked solution →In a study of drug doses and disease symptoms, which is the dependent variable?Read the answer and worked solution →What is a theory in social science?Read the answer and worked solution →What are the basic building blocks of theory?Read the answer and worked solution →In social science, what is a law?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Glenn Firebaugh's first rule, what should good social research allow?Read the answer and worked solution →What do nomothetic explanations try to identify?Read the answer and worked solution →

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What did early suffrage movements mainly aim to remove?

  1. Property rules for voting
  2. Rules on candidate age
  3. Limits on public meetings
  4. Voting by secret ballot
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Correct answer: A. Property rules for voting

Movements after the French revolutions focused on dropping property qualifications so that more men could vote.

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Liberal democracy is also called what?

  1. Pure democracy form
  2. Western-style democracy
  3. Tribal democracy form
  4. Direct democracy form
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Correct answer: B. Western-style democracy

The alternative name reflects how liberal democracy developed in Western countries.

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Which feature is common in liberal democracies?

  1. One branch holding all power
  2. Rule by a hereditary council
  3. Unlimited power for the executive
  4. Separated powers, independent judiciary
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Correct answer: D. Separated powers, independent judiciary

Liberal democracies divide government into separate branches, including an independent judiciary that checks the others.

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