LSAT 152 – Section 4 – Question 25

LSAT 152 - Section 4 - Question 25

November 2018

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT152 S4 Q25	+LR	Strengthen +Streng Causal Reasoning +CausR Value Judgment +ValJudg	A 7% 158 B 13% 159 C 64% 164 D 4% 154 E 13% 158	147 157 166	+Harder	147.181 +SubsectionMedium

Editorial: Any democratic society is endangered by segmentation into classes of widely differing incomes between which there is little mobility. Such class divisions strengthen divisive political factions that stand in the way of good governance. Since economic expansion gives people more opportunities to improve their economic standing, democratic societies should adopt policies that ensure constant economic expansion.

Summarize Argument

The editorial concludes democracies should work to ensure constant economic expansion. Why? Because expansion gives people the opportunity to improve their economic standing, and economic classes that prevent people from improving their standing strengthen political divisions in democratic societies, making government worse.

Notable Assumptions

The editorial assumes a democracy is less likely to be segmented into classes if its people have better chances to improve their economic position. It also assumes that divisive political groups are less likely to stand in the way of good government if they’re weak, and that constant economic expansion wouldn’t create any new issues for good governance that outweigh its advantages.

Discord within a society tends to increase inequities in the distribution of wealth.

This doesn’t say eliminating discord reduces those inequities. In addition, the editorial doesn’t claim constant economic expansion will reduce the total amount of discord in a society—just that a failure to expand will cause divisive political factions to become stronger.

Political factions are sometimes willing to overlook their differences to back policies that are conducive to economic expansion.

This exception to the rule doesn’t disprove the rule. It doesn’t change the editorial’s premise that divisive political factions make good governance harder to achieve.

Economic expansion results in a proportionally greater increase in earnings for people at low income levels than for people at other income levels.

This strengthens the editorial’s assumption that improved economic mobility will make class divisions less stark. It rules out a damaging possibility: that economic expansion mostly helps higher-income people, making class divisions greater.

Economic expansion cannot occur unless there is significant financial investment in the economy by people at the highest income levels.

If anything, this weakens the argument. It suggests that economic growth may be self-defeating in the long run, since reducing class divisions may reduce the number of very wealthy people willing to invest.

The presence of divisive political factions can be an obstacle to economic expansion.

This doesn’t address the editorial’s primary assumption: that improved economic mobility decreases class divisions. It suggests that failure to expand the economy is self-reinforcing, not that it leads to bad governance.

LSAT 152 – Section 4 – Question 25

LSAT 152 - Section 4 - Question 25

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