Bureaucracies are often influenced in their policy options by the prevailing customs of the people working for them. For example, the Army Corps of Engineers tends to protect citizens from floods by

A) building dams.
B) building bridges.
C) updating decaying infrastructure.
D) moving endangered structures to higher ground.
E) fighting global warming.


A

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