PSCI252 Lecture 7: Political Regimes

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cyanfish552

1 Dec 2016

School

University of Waterloo

Department

Political Science

Course

PSCI252

Professor

Hongying Wang

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Meaningful competition (no cohesion, more than one party, etc. ) Protection against the tyranny of the majority or mob rule. Separate elections for the chief executive and members of the legislature re. President is head of state as well as chief executive. E. g. in the us: 4 year term for up to two terms. All three legislative branches (presidency, house, senate) are often controlled by the same political party. Head of government is not the head of state. Queen elizabeth is head of state (represented by the governor gen eneral) Pm, cabinet, and parliament often work together in lawmaking. No fixed term as long as supported by the public. Stronger government - power is more concentrated between usually parties lly two. Parliamentary pr system has advantages in representation, protec minorities, voter participation otection of. Presidential plurality may be strong in the short run. Parliamentary pr is better for consensus building in the long run n.

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2.Create a list that is made up of the first half of the elements of a list called original_list. Store the new list in a variable called half_list. Assume that the original list has already been initialized and contains an even number of elements.

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4.Write a function called highest_values that accepts as arguments a list of numeric values and a single integer (n). The function should return a list made up of the largest n values from the argument list in order from lowest to highest. For example, if the argument list is [46, 82, 25, 61, 70, 33, 54] and n is 3, the return value should be [61, 70, 82]. Assume that the argument list contains at least n elements.

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6. Write a function called price_range that accepts a list of floating-point numbers representing prices as an argument and returns the the difference between the highest price and the lowest price. Do NOT use the built-in functions max or min in your solution. Assume that all prices are positive values and that none of them exceed 10,000.00.

7. Write a function called count_vowels that accepts a string argument that represents a word and returns the number of vowels that are in the word. The vowels are A, E, I, O, and U (ignore the 'sometimes Y' rule). Count both uppercase and lowercase vowels.

Assume that the variable table holds a two-dimensional list of integers. Write code that computes the sum of all elements in the table, assigning the result to the variable table_sum.

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