LSAT 117 – Section 4 – Question 08

LSAT 117 - Section 4 - Question 08

October 2004

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PT117 S4 Q08
+LR
Most strongly supported +MSS
Fill in the blank +Fill
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
2%
156
B
76%
163
C
12%
160
D
4%
155
E
6%
157
126
143
160
 +Medium 147.423 +SubsectionMedium

Insurgent political parties that are profoundly dissatisfied with the dominant party’s reign and justificatory ideology always produce factions whose views and aims differ as greatly from each other’s as they do from the dominant party’s. Although these factions ignore their own disagreements for the sake of defeating the dominant party, their disagreements inevitably come forward upon victory. Therefore, _______.

Summary
Revolutionary political parties that oppose the dominant party’s reign and ideology always produce groups that are as different from each other as these groups are different from the dominant party. Even though these groups ignore each other’s differences, these differences are eventually revealed upon victory.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
Therefore, a winning revolutionary group must address the differences between the other revolutionary groups if that group wants to stay in power.

A
no victorious insurgent party ever manages to stay in power for as long as the party it displaces did
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus the timeline for any political party to stay in power. To say that no revolutionary party that wins ever stays in power for as long as the displaced party is too strong.
B
a victorious insurgent party must address the disagreements between its factions if it is to stay in power
This answer is strongly supported. If these group’s differences aren’t addressed, then it is probable that the remaining groups will band together to dethrone the new dominant party.
C
the heretofore insurgent party will not always promulgate a new ideology to justify its own policies, once it is victorious
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus whether or not the winning revolutionary party will promote a new ideology. We only know that the ideologies in these parties differ from the party in power, not necessary that these ideologies are “new.”
D
a victorious insurgent party always faces opposition from the party it recently ousted
This answer is unsupported. Whether the revolutionary party will face opposition from the party it dethrones is an assumption that we don’t know will “always” be true.
E
it is impossible for the different factions of a victorious insurgent party to effect the compromises necessary to keep the new party in power
This answer is unsupported. It is too strong to say that agreement among the different revolutionary groups is “impossible.”

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