Author Question: While in office, Vladimir Putin a. reduced the size of Russia's bureaucracy by privatizing ... (Read 22 times)

torybrooks · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

While in office, Vladimir Putin

a. reduced the size of Russia's bureaucracy by privatizing several government functions.
b. increased the size of Russia's bureaucracy as he used positions in the bureaucracy to reward those who displayed political loyalty.
c. reduced the size of the civilian bureaucracy by having some government functions turned over to the military.
d. reduced the size of the bureaucracy by purging it of political opponents.
e. kept the bureaucracy about the same size, although his reforms did allow the government to take on more responsibility with roughly the same number of employees.

Question 2

The theory of inverse judicial power holds that judiciaries become more independent and able to influence political policies in a country

a. that is experiencing divided government.
b. when populations in a democracy become disillusioned with the corruption of the other branches.
c. with a parliamentary system that has a coalition government.
d. when the institutions of the legislative and executive branches are weak.
e. when the country is highly fragmented and polarized.