The tendency of bureaucrats and elected officials to approve new programs and spending while seldom reviewing existing programs for their continued justification is known as ________

Explain the circumstances during the Reconstruction that first led Texas to become a one-party Democratic state

What will be an ideal response?

The demand for executive representation coincided with the period of:

A. Jacksonian Democracy. B. Progressive Reformism. C. the American Revolution. D. Executive Leadership.

Researchers are studying a bureaucracy from the standpoint that it should be an apolitical organization that bases individual advancement on merit rather than political connections. What model are these researchers applying?

A. Acquisitive  B. Merit  C. Monopolistic  D. Spoils  E. Weberian

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

A) With proportional representation systems, all it takes is between one and five percent of the vote for a party to win seats in the national legislature. B) In many Scandinavian countries, farmers? parties have long been in existence. C) Many new interest groups in Europe have formed parties on the basis of shared values. D) Green parties in Europe have never been able to win enough votes to enter the nationallegislature. E) Parties are more like interest groups in Europe than in the U.S.