What is the public-choice approach and on what premise does it base its claims?
What will be an ideal response?
The public-choice approach is grounded in microeconomics and particularly in the rational approach, which underpins economics that human beings are rational and seek to maximize their own self-interest. Along those lines, the public-choice approach posits that public officials are also self-interested and seek to minimize decisions that would put their careers at risk. Instead, their decisions reflect their desires to promote their careers. This explains the often-disappointing performances of government as this approach sees public officials as self-interested bureaucrats interested in growing inefficient government structures that are against the public’s best interest.
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Which is the least democratic branch of the United States' government
a. the Presidency b. the Senate c. the House of Representatives d. the Congress e. the Supreme Court
What is the purpose of the Hatch Act as amended?
a. to prohibit federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity while on duty b. to promote transparency in the federal bureaucracy during the transition from one president to the next c. to authorize greater use of discretion in bureaucratic decisionmaking d. to prohibit awarding government jobs based on partisan loyalty
The Constitution is sometimes called an “invitation to struggle” in the area of foreign policy because it gives some foreign-policy power to Congress and some to the president. Discuss this struggle. What overlaps exist? How have presidents gotten the upper hand? And how has Congress tried to restrain the president since the Vietnam War?
What will be an ideal response?
Define and describe the significance of the concept of prerogative powers.
What will be an ideal response?