. 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.

Congress is controlled by the democrats. president yaeger, a republican, takes several actions that are opposed by the democrats in congress. first, the president introduces a new budget that cuts most of the government's social programs and gives tax breaks to the wealthy. next, president yaeger negotiates a trade treaty with a nation accused of human rights abuses. then, the president gives pardons to three republican senators who have been convicted of crimes.