For Chester Barnard, the essence of a bureaucracy is that it involves ______ in pursuit of a joint objective.
a. clear division of labor
b. loosely organized operations
c. conscious coordination of activities
d. tightly bound rules and regulations
c. conscious coordination of activities
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What was the result of the Texas Supreme Court ruling in the 1989 Edgewood school case?
A. It ordered basic changes in the financing of public K-12 education in order to provide more equity between rich and poor school districts. B. It ruled that parents could home school their children provided they meet "basic educational goals." C. It ordered an increase in hiring of minorities through a quota system that would allow for greater diversity among school staff. D. It ruled that public K-12 schools could no longer allow prayer or discussion of religion in a classroom as it violated the principle of separation of church and state.
A two-party system
A. is one in which there are only two legal parties. B. is one in which only two parties have a reasonable chance of winning. C. is one in which control of government is divided between two political parties. D. tends to exist mostly in European democracies. E. is one in which there are only two legal parties and tends to exist mostly in European democracies.
How does free riding affect the cost of health insurance?
A. It has a dramatic effect on those who choose not to buy coverage because they will have to pay hefty bills if they need treatment. B. It decreases the availability of health care for all because fewer people choose to enter the health care profession. C. Premiums rise for those with health care because insurance companies need to pay more for an increasingly expensive risk pool. D. Indirectly at best because insurance companies could keep the cost of premiums down if they deployed technology more effectively.
Entitlement programs are designed to do which of the following?
a. get the poor out of poverty b. help ensure equality in public school funding c. help provide income to low-earning households d. provide benefits to all qualifying individuals