The __________ model depicts a decentralized government in which the key actors are bureaucratic organizations rather than the president or a group of policymakers. Policymaking tends to be feudal, with most bureaucratic organizations relatively autonomous from the political leadership and each other. In this process, U.S. foreign policy consists of the sum of the various foreign policies
produced by the organizations comprising the foreign policy bureaucracy.
a. rational actor c. organizational process
b. governmental politics d. groupthink
C
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The U.S. lesson learned from the Vietnam War was that
A. constant bombing will force the enemy to concede defeat. B. there were limits on America's ability to get its own way in the world. C. public opinion could be ignored by leaders during wartime. D. nuclear weapons had utility in a war of insurgency. E. the national interest of the United States required a total disengagement from Asian affairs.
In the U.S., national interest group formation occurred
A) in a steady, gradual process. B) very slowly. C) primarily in the early twentieth century. D) in several waves. E) primarily in the early Republic.
The Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's were
A. mass-circulation magazines founded during the early 1900s. B. magazines specializing in yellow journalism during the mid-1800s. C. newspapers sponsored by the political parties of the early 1800s. D. the first magazines to present public policy issues during the mid-1800s. E. newspapers specializing in party news and election reports founded during the early 1900s.