Political Scientist Francis Rourke suggests that the influence of experts rests on

a. increasing control by experts of bureaucratic discretion.
b. a pattern of increasing reliance on bureaucratic experts for technical advice.
c. a monopoly of information in the subject area.
d. all of the above.
e. A and C only.


ANS: D

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