Author Question: In California, the minority party can sometimes block approval of the state budget because a. it ... (Read 39 times)

ishan · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

In California, the minority party can sometimes block approval of the state budget because

a. it can employ the filibuster.
b. a two thirds vote of the membership of each chamber is required for passage of the budget.
c. a majority of each major party in each chamber is required for passage of the budget.
d. All of these
a. None of these. There is normally little that the minority party can do to influence the outcome of the budgetary process.

Question 2

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