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

1. Much of the regulation developed during the early part of the 20th century was supported by, and benefited, the newly regulated big businesses.
2. Regulatory agencies established during the “New Deal” era were characterized by considerable autonomy.
3. There is an ongoing debate over the moral rightness, desirability, and expediency of government regulation.
4. Regulatory agencies are empowered to enforce rules made by Congress, but do not have the power to make rules themselves.
5. A leftist or progressive critique has argued that the principal objective of regulatory agencies in a capitalist society is to maintain broad popular legitimation of the system while at the same time promoting capitalist accumulation of profits.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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