PT119.S2.Q4

PrepTest 119 - Section 2 - Question 4

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Chapin: Commentators have noted with concern the recent electoral success by extremist parties in several democratic countries. ███ █████ █████████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ █████ ██████████ ███ ██████████ ████ ███ ████████████ ███ ███████████ ████████████ ████ ████ ███ ████ ████ ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ███████████ ████ ███████ █████ ███████████

Summary

Chapin concludes that the recent electoral success by extremist parties in several democratic countries poses no threat to democracy in those countries because the extremists have won pluralities, not majorities, and have only won when the moderate parties were preoccupied with arguing amongst themselves.

Missing Connection

The conclusion is that the success of extremist parties poses no threat to democracy in some democratic countries, but the premises say nothing about democracy.

How to get from premises to conclusion? Based on the premises, we know that these extremist parties have only won pluralities, not majorities, and have only won when the moderate parties were arguing amongst themselves. We can properly draw Chapin’s conclusion if we assume that when extremist parties only win pluralities, not majorities, or when extremist parties win while the moderate parties are arguing amongst themselves, these extremist parties don’t threaten democracy.

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4.

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a

Parties that win ███████████ ███ ███ ██████████ █████ ████████ ██ ██████████ ██████ ███████ ██ █████ █████████ █████████ █████████████

b

Multiparty political systems ███ ██████ ████ ██████████ ████ █████████ █████████ ███████ ████

c

Countries in which █████████ ███████ ███ ███████████ █████████ ████ ██████████ ███████████ ██ ██████ ██ █████ ██ █████████ ████ ████ █████████ ████████

d

Members of moderate ███████ ███ ████████ █████████ ███████ ██ ██ █ ███████ ██████ ██ █████████ ████ █████████ ███ █████ █████ ███████████ ████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ █████

e

People are not ██████ ██████████ █ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██████████ ████ ████ ████ ███ █████████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██████████

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