Define and describe the significance of the concept of clientitis.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers should identify clientitis as the process by which foreign service officers form close relationships with their host country and dismiss U.S. national interests, concerns, and priorities. Answers could also discuss how clientitis functions as a constraint on effective diplomacy as well as on rationality.

Political Science

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Under the __________, jobs in the federal bureaucracy are awarded on the basis of skills and expertise

Fill in the blank with the right word.

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Which country has only recently created a supreme court with judicial review power?

a. India b. Brazil c. Iran d. the United Kingdom e. Germany

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____________ is Russia’s state-controlled natural gas company.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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How is slack similar to drift?

a. Both are ways that federal bureaucrats deal with red tape. b. Both are federal responses to the Administrative Procedures Act. c. Both are problems that have been eliminated through privatization. d. Both are possible consequences of the principal–agent problem. e. Both are possible consequences of deregulation.

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