Which of the following contends that bureaucrats emphasize their professional, civil service expertise and control information in order to make oversight of their activities more difficult and maximize their independence from political control?
a. New professionalism theory
b. The nomenklatura system
c. Bureaucratic autonomy theory
d. Praetorianism
e. Principal-agent theory
C
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Why have candidates in recent years opted to forgo matching funds?
a. To avoid spending limits b. To appear generous to voters c. To make certain ballots will be secret d. To minimize the importance of conventions
In general, when the price of oil experiences a prolonged price increase,
A. the Texas economy improves and Texas state revenues decrease. B. the Texas economy suffers and Texas state revenues increase. C. the Texas economy suffers and Texas state revenues decrease. D. the Texas economy improves and Texas state revenues increase.
Why does the United States have a two-party system?
a. The Framers wanted competition between political parties. b. The Framers wanted to avoid the mistakes of Europe. c. It was a compromise between a unitary system's efficiency and a multi-party system's diversity. d. It developed in the struggle between slave owners and abolitionists. e. It developed in the struggle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.
Which of the outcomes, if any, is a Condorcet winner?
family member to the emergency room and has a very poor experience with the level of medical care provided at the local hospital. This leads her to view improving medical care as a higher priority than improving education in the municipality, if money is to be spent improving any programs. Councillors 1 and 2 do not change their preference orderings. Thus, the councillors now have the following preference orderings over the spending choices: Councillor 1: Education, Medical, Tax cut Councillor 2: Medical, Tax cut, Education Councillor 3: Tax cut, Medical, Education Assume that the councillors hold a round-robin tournament that pits each alternative against every other alternative in a series of pair-wise votes. The winner is the alternative that wins the most contests. Based on this information, answer the following four questions. A. education B. medical C. tax cut D. There is no Condorcet winner in this example.