Discuss bureaucracies and accountability. How democratic is the federal bureaucracy? Why are federal bureaucrats so hard to remove from office? What measures have been adopted in recent years to make bureaucracies more receptive to the will of the people?
What will be an ideal response?
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Why do some people predict the Democrats will regain political control in Texas?
a. The liberal values of most white Texans are at odds with policy stances of Republicans. b. Stricter voter identification requirements are likely to keep individuals who traditionally support Republicans from casting ballots. c. Hispanics represent a large and increasing proportion of the Texas electorate and they tend to vote Democratic. d. Texas is experiencing massive in-migration of Democratic voters from states in the Midwest.
Which of the following is true of the old media in the twentieth century?
A) Film displaced print media in the early twentieth century. B) Television did not have an effect in displacing print media. C) Beginning about 1950, the number of adults reading a daily paper began to increase dramatically. D) Radio did not displace print media in the early twentieth century. E) Beginning about 1950, the circulation of the newspaper declined to a great extent.
Which of the following is not an operative ideal of liberal democracy?
a. popular government b. rights-respecting government c. government by a wise elite d. constitutional government
Francis Fukuyama argued that ________, unlike communism and fascism, supplied a sense of equal recognition among individuals and groups that ended the historical quest for domination.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).