Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Contrary to popular belief, civil servants generally perform their jobs as well as or better than people doing similar work in the private sector and they mirror the American public far more accurately than Congress.
2.Savvy bureaucrats design and manage their programs to build support in Congress by producing widely distributed local benefits even when their main purpose is generating diffuse national benefits.
3.Congress pays close attention to what its bureaucratic agents are doing because administrative oversight is a high priority since it helps members win reelection.
1.true
2.true
3.false
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The basic pattern of competition between two broad, usually fractious coalitions persists.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following statements about congressional districts in the House of Representatives is accurate?
a. The size of the House continues to increase every 10 years since the Constitution requires 1 representative for every 33,000 residents. b. States have only gained seats following the decennial census and never lost them. c. Population movements have meant that states in the south and the west have gained seats at the expense of industrial states in the northeast and Midwest. d. The Constitution requires that the geographic size of each congressional district needs to be substantially similar.
The strength of groups promoting ethnic interests in India in the 1960s led to the
a. creation of additional states b. onset of violent peasant uprisings c. banning of ethnically based parties d. declaration of a state emergency that lasted for three years
In a nation as large as the United States, the Athenian kind of democracy is
a. absolutely necessary. b. challenging, but attainable. c. logistically impossible. d. helped by the fact that in addition to the large geographic size, there also exists a large population. e. is necessary for full democratic rights.