When Congress continually monitors the actions of a bureaucracy, it participates in ______.
a. police patrol oversight
b. fire alarm oversight
c. omnibus oversight
d. legislative oversight
a. police patrol oversight
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The governments of the Global South are facing challenges in all of the following areas EXCEPT
a. widespread poverty. b. declining birthrates. c. financial pressures for economic restructuring. d. inter-ethnic conflict. e. the ability to deliver public services.
It is illegal to discriminate against the handicapped because of the:
A. Civil Rights Act of 1964 B. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 C. Civil Rights Act of 1965 D. Civil Rights Act of 1968
Which of the following is NOT true regarding welfare policy making and experimentation? a. States have been coined as "laboratories of democracy" in order to experiment with different policies withoutrisk to the entire nation
b. The competition and experimentation among states and localities often leads to best practices in the provisionsof public policy. c. Allowing states and localities to experiment with public policies can help foster and develop a set of bestpractices for other jurisdictions to emulate. d. Competition may lead to a race to the top, with states and localities trying to add social welfare and healthcare benefits to attract more people to their location.
The authors' example of the effect of public opinion on the increasing number of dismissals for small amounts of marijuana possession demonstrates that:
a. the media play no real role in public opinion b. the political elite can manipulate public opinion to support its goals c. when conflict arises, public opinion is mobilized and affects the political elite