In the picket-fence analogy, money and authority run vertically along programs from upper to lower levels of government agencies, while the legislative and executive branches of government, the horizontal slats, can do little to support or affect the vertical slats, or programs

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


ANS: T

Political Science

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In China, Mao Zedong implemented an economic policy where the state controlled all economic activity. This type of economic policy is an example of __________

A) laissez faire B) capitalism C) central planning D) mercantilism

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Which theory holds IGO–NGO engagement as a kind of public relations exercise, in which under-fire IGOs make themselves more valid by opening to NGO input?

A. legitimacy B. norms C. functionalism D. globalism

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Political scientists __________ data which makes the discipline more like the natural sciences

A) balance B) reason C) rationalize D) quantify

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