Which statement best describes a difference between presidential and parliamentary democracies?

a. in a parliamentary democracy, the executive and legislative branches are joined. in a presidential democracy, the two branches are separate.
b. in a presidential democracy, the head of government is a member of the legislature. in a parliamentary government, citizens directly elect the head of government.
c. in a presidential democracy, citizens are able to vote for their legislators. in a parliamentary democracy, citizens are not able to vote for their legislators.
d. in a parliamentary democracy, citizens vote directly for the head of government. in a presidential democracy, citizens do not vote directly for the head of government.

Answer is c

Explanation:

The prime minister act as head of the national government in a parliamentary state ONLY. In a parliamentary system, the monarch or president is the head of state, whereas in a presidential system, the president is head of the executive branch, but there are two other branches that help lead the national government.

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superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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