What is the federal bureaucracy's main function?

What will be an ideal response?


The federal bureaucracy's primary function is policy implementation. Policy implementation refers to the process of carrying out the authoritative decisions of Congress, the president, and the courts. This task occurs for the most part within the confines of the federal budget and can be relatively straightforward (in the case of agencies that are charged with the delivery of services), but there are also many areas where agency employees have discretionary authority.

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A. newspapers. B. websites. C. television. D. radio. E. magazines.

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Which of the following arguments was key to the NAACP’s case in Sweatt v. Painter?

a. One must look only at physical facilities when evaluating educational quality. b. Education quality is a factor of equal access and equal opportunity. c. One must look beyond physical facilities when evaluating educational quality. d. Educational quality cannot be determined by equal access or equal opportunity alone.

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Compared with other Western nations, the United States has a high amount of average wealth, but that wealth is unevenly distributed

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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There is a general consensus among comparativists about the value of __________, which focuses on specific features of the political world

a. middle-level theory b. rational choice theory c. grand theories d. fundamental theories e. constructivist theories

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