A clerical worker for the federal government notices gross negligence in the spending habits of a government agency and the worker feels the need to call this discrepancy to the attention of the media. That clerical worker is an example of which of the following?
A. A whistleblower
B. An ombudsman
C. A legislative page
D. A sunset legislator
E. A fraudulent bureaucrat
Answer: A
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a. stability b. collapse of state sovereignty c. the two-turnover test d. economic development
Grassroots lobbying is not very effective
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Realists see the central dynamics of world politics as ______.
a. a continuum toward less destructive state interactions b. changing patterns of conflict and cooperation between states c. cooperation, competition, and positive sum interactions d. conflict and zero-sum interactions
Congress oversees the bureaucracy by using
A. sunset provisions. B. oversight hearings. C. the Government Accounting Office. D. all of these: sunset provisions, the Government Accounting Office, and oversight hearings. E. None of these answers is correct.