University:
Binghamton University
Course:
PLSC 111 | Intro To American Politics
Academic year:

2023
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268

Pages:

1
Author:

Daniella Shah

Instruction: Only the letter that is in the space provided will be considered as your official answer. ______ 1. Bureaucrats are principals in the principal-agent game. ( T/F ) ______ 2. Americans support smaller government in the abstract but do not support cuts to the large programs that would be necessary to shrink the federal budget and bureaucracy. ( T/F ) _____ 3. What is true of bureaucrats? They generally have no discretion as to how policy is a. implemented. b. They are mostly partisan loyalists. They generally have a great deal of discretion as to c. how policy is implemented. d. They are held in high regard in public opinion polls. ______ 4. Where do bureaucrats get their authority to create regulations? c. from the Supreme Court a. from Congress b. from the president d. from the Constitution ______ 5. What sorts of situations involve what is known as “regulatory capture?” Situations where legislators take away bureaucratic a. discretion through more specific laws. Situations where bureaucrats make decisions without b. reference to interest groups, elected officials, or even their own policy views. Situations where bureaucrats are responsive to the c. interests of the group or corporation that they are supposed to regulate. Situations where bureaucrats act independently of the d. influence of either legislators or the president. ANS: F/ T/ C/ A/ C

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