What is decentralization?
a. the tendency of members of Congress to leave elected office in order to take jobs in the federal bureaucracy
b. a trend in which the president authorizes federal agency and department heads to exercise greater independence in their decision making
c. the tendency of members of Congress to defer to agency leadership in their oversight of federal bureaucracy
d. a reform for government agencies in which regional and local offices are allowed to manage their own performance without close supervision from headquarters
d
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An organization extending to the whole of society that can legitimately use force to carry out its decisions is a __________
a. legislature b. government c. judicial system d. corporation
When you ignore political opinions you do not like, which of these is occurring?
a. selective perception b. television malaise c. information overload d. media bias
The concepts of political "power" and "authority" are synonymous
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is credited with bringing an end to property qualifications for voting?
a. the support of the nation's leading newspapers b. the spread of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian principles of democracy c. the spread of public schools and increased rates of literacy d. the growing hostility between North and South in the years preceding the Civil War