Question 1
Iron triangles accurately depict the relationships among congressional committees, interest groups, and bureaucratic agencies, but the full range of politics is best seen when one looks at ______.
◦ issue networks
◦ departments
◦ the spoils system
◦ bureaucratic discretion
Question 2
President Obama’s appointments to the bureaucracy differed from President George W. Bush’s appointments in that ______.
◦ President Bush’s appointments were made with policy expertise in mind while President Obama’s were based on loyalty
◦ the most important criterion in President Obama’s appointments appears to have been ideology
◦ President Obama’s appointments were more likely to be made on the basis of policy expertise
◦ President Bush’s appointees were chosen to strengthen the agencies in carrying out their traditional functions
St. George Jackson Mivart
George French Angas
Andrew Jackson as president.
George Berkeley (1685–1753).
In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, the first minority to achieve this ...