<u>Answer</u>:
Since the mid 1970s, the United States had a significant trade deficit.
<u>Explanation</u>:
The U.S had undergone a trade deficit since the 1970s. This has been contributed to the fact that they have been importing way more supplies and goods than the other countries were buying from the Americans. These imports have affected the native industries. Also, the demand for American products went down drastically and thus contributing to the deficit.
While Europe and Great Britain undertook industrialization in the 18th century, Americans started it in the 19th century-this delay resulted in the US depending upon imported goods and also in US struggling to meet Europe's levels of export.
Answer:
<em>Comparative politics is investigating internal processes within countries or political entities by comparing their characteristics according to a specific model.</em> Though it can potentially address a wide range of aspects, comparative politics is most widely applied to such <em>issues </em>as <u>politics of democratic and authoritarian states</u>, <u>political identit</u>y, <u>regime change</u> and <u>democratization</u>, <u>voting behavior</u> and a number of others.
<em>Comparativists often ask</em> how certain processes, for example, democratization, differ in specific states that still can be placed under the same analysis because they share certain characteristics.
Following the <u>democratization example</u>, let us take post-soviet countries. Comparativists may take most similar countries that share many similarities, such as Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), or most different countries, such as Estonia and Belarus. Here comparativists may ask, why Estonia developed a strong democratic regime, while Belarus fell into a consolidated authoritarian regime.
Because they are not in an area that is in danger of having an earthquake