Which of the following is NOT true about the British civil service?
a. Two important positions in ministries are the permanent secretary (responsible for the daily administrative running of the department) and the principal private secretary (liaison between the minister and senior civil servants).
b. There is a concern that the growing importance of special advisors is eroding the
impartiality of civil servants.
c. Civil servants in Britain do much of the work of conceptualizing and refining legislation.
d. The size of the civil service has decreased with the ongoing modernization of Whitehall.
e. The majority of people at the top of Britain's ministries are traditional career civil servants.
a
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a. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Council of Economic Advisers. b. Treasury Department, the Commerce Department, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. c. Council on Foreign Relations, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Office of Management and Budget. d. International Monetary Fund, Amnesty International, and the World Economic Forum.
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a. William Howard Taft b. Charles Evans Hughes c. Harlan F. Stone d. Fred M. Vinson
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