Define the term coordination as it relates to “horizontal activity” and “vertical activity.”
What will be an ideal response?
Coordination is a horizontal activity as it seeks to draw different agencies together through a united purpose. This is difficult to do because no agency willingly surrenders control of its core activities to another without a struggle. Often, coordination has to be orchestrated through the intervention of a coordinator, which is an example of a vertical activity. Since coordination is so vital to administration, called by the text “the core of administration,” it is worth forcing such interagency coordination even if it seems unnatural at first so that things can get accomplished in government.
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What is the margin tax, and how has it not lived up to the original goal of using it to better fund public education?
What will be an ideal response?
Cohabitation is the
a. practice of the president and prime minister both taking up residence at Elysee Palace. b. mingling of French and Muslim citizens. c. fusion of executive and legislative branches. d. merging of French and European Union law. e. situation where the president's coalition is different from the coalition in control of the parliament.
According to the textbook, life within the bureaucracy is ______.
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