Identify the structure and functions of the Department of Homeland Security. What did journalist Michael Crowley mean in his quote, “DHS is a bureaucratic Frankenstein, with clumsily stitched together limbs and an inadequate, misfiring brain”?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify DHS as an organization designed to bridge together the twenty-two different organizations involved in domestic security-related tasks to prevent acts of terrorism against the United States. Answers should also identify securing U.S. borders, managing immigration, responding to natural disasters, and safeguarding cyberspace as missions of the DHS. Answers describing the meaning of the quote will vary but should acknowledge the difficulties associated with coordinating these different organizations, each with a slightly different mission and ongoing organizational culture clashes.
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Among the following, the most significant factor in keeping people who commit felonies out of jail is:
A. the exclusionary rule B. the Miranda rule C. the fact so few of them are arrested D. the abolition of capital punishment
Tight monetary policy theory dictates that when the economy is faced with inflation, the government should
A. increase the supply of credit. B. increase taxes. C. decrease the supply of credit. D. decrease taxes. E. take complete control of the economy.
Which of the following is (are) assumed in the rational actor model of presidential policymaking?
a. The president is ultimately in charge. b. Once the president makes a decision, the bureaucracy faithfully implements the policy in accordance with his wishes. c. Presidential goals and beliefs are key explanatory concepts in this decisionmaking model. d. All of the above are true.
Which of the following is NOT one of the elements involved in the implementation of judicial decisions according to the categories noted by Charles Johnson and Bradley Canon?
A) institutionalized population B) interpreting population C) consumer population D) implementing population E) defining population