Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Presidents and cabinet members can never be aware of every detailed operation of the government they head, even when the bureaucratic failure comes with such a great cost.
2. Unelected officials must decide what the law, circumstances, and common sense require of them in given situations, and after they exercise their best judgment, citizens and representatives proclaim that it is not what they wanted the bureaucracy to do.
3. Since the federal government left such a small footprint in the nineteenth century, party members had little interest influencing federal appointments in their states and districts.
4. Bureaucratic organization is found not just in governments but in modern business corporations and spiritual enterprises.
5. Hidden information refers to agents knowing things that principals do not.


1.true
2.true
3.false
4.true
5.true

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