The federal bureaucracy today is
A. a mix of the patronage and merit systems, with the vast majority of positions being filled by merit.
B. more responsive to the public at large than to the particular interests that depend on its various programs.
C. extremely wasteful and unresponsive to the public it serves.
D. an ineffective institution in comparison with bureaucracies of democracies with unitary systems.
E. mostly dominated by patronage politics.
Answer: A
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