The RC Question: Explicit Text

Choose an answer for the following Explicit Text question. Designate each of the four you don't choose as one or a combination of the five common wrong answer types: Au Contraire, Outside the Scope, Distortion, Extreme, and Faulty Use of Detail.

The author cites which of the following as a prerequisite of an effective democratic society?

	The lack of a previous authoritarian or dictatorial rule
	Academic institutions providing intellectual support for the directives of the state
	A mechanism for interchange between corporations and workers
	An exclusive focus on the conventional elements of a democratic system
	A pluralistic approach to political parties