According to the author, what is an example of the rally-around-the-flag effect?
a. In 2003, Spanish voters unseated a prime minister because of his support of the war in Iraq.
b. In 2004, President Bush was reelected, showing the support of the American people for a President in a timeof war.
c. In early 2010, the president of North Korea launched a torpedo attack on a South Korean ship to show histoughness to other elites.
d. After the invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003, the Iraqi people rallied around the United States insupport of their intervention.
Question 2
What is the structural argument that supports the view that democracies do not go to war with each other?
a. It focuses on the way that democracies often find it easier to reach compromise with each other.
b. It asserts that democracies have a respect for each other that they do not have for non-democratic states.
c. As democracies are very successful at fighting wars, democratic politicians are worried that they might lose awar with another democracy, which would make them vulnerable in upcoming elections, so they fear going towar with other democracies.
d. It states that the three branches of government in a democracy and the related checks and balances make itmuch less likely for two democracies to enter into war with each other.
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