. In 1991, the Soviet Union, long a repressive single-party state, collapsed. Fifteen new nation-states, including Russia, emerged out of the old Soviet empire. Eleven of the 15 chose presidential democracy as their new form of government. Identify three factors that may have influenced their decision to choose this form of government over a dictatorship, single-party, or parliamentary democracy form.

Aguiding principle of the national response framework is that: a. response partners use nonstandard structures to allow for flexible and scalable responses. b. unity of effort results when responding agencies are willing to relinquish their authorities. c. effective partnership relies on engaging all elements of the whole community. d. readiness to act encourages response partners to self-dispatch to an incident scene.