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Practice Quiz Questions

13. When bureaucrats pursue their own goals rather than their
    assignments from officeholders, this is called.
    a an iron triangle
    b regulatory capture
    c the problem of control
    d turkey farming
    e bureaucratic drift


14. Giving direct orders to bureaucrats the influence of
    their policy expertise and the potential to respond
    to unforeseen circumstances.
    a limits; reduces
    b increases; reduces
    c limits; increases
    d increases; increases
    e limits; has no effect on


15. While police patrol oversight has the advantage of being
    t has the drawback of being , i.
    a affordable; unresponsive
    b responsive; costly
    c affordable; generally unnecessary
    d responsive; unpopular
    e affordable; ineffective

Suggested Reading

Brehm, John, and Scott Gates. Teaching, Managing Tasks, and

Brokering Trust: Functions of the Public Executive. New York:

Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.

Carpenter, Daniel P. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy:

Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies,

1862–1928. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Huber, John D., and Charles R. Shipan. Deliberate Discretion? The

Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Lewis, David E. The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political

Control and Bureaucratic Performance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2010.

Light, Paul. A Government Well-Executed: Public Service and Public

Performance. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.

McCubbins, Mathew D., Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast.

“Structure and Process as Solutions to the Politician’s Principal–

Agency Problem,” Virginia Law Review 74 (1989): 431–82.

Miller, Gary. Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of

Hierarchy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Moe, Terry M. “Political Control and the Power of the Agent.” Journal

of Law, Economics, and Organization 22 (2006): 1–21.

Nelson, Michael. “A Short, Ironic History of American National

Bu reauc rac y.” Journal of Politics 4 4 (1982): 747–78.

Skowronek, Stephen. Building a New American State: The Expansion

of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Workman, Samuel. The Dynamics of Bureaucracy in the U.S.

Government. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Study guide

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