__________ prevail when the president and his closest advisors remain relatively uninvolved or are unable to dominate the policymaking process. Under these circumstances, other policymakers and bureaucratic organizations become the key determinants of policymaking and the interagency process

In terms of informed decision-making, which of the following

statements is true? a. Social democratic countries perform the best. b. Christian democratic countries perform the best. c. Extreme market democracies perform the best. d. Extreme market democracies performed better than social democratic countries but not as well as Christian democracies.

Theodore Lowi's book The End of Liberalism suggests that

A. presidential power needs to be stronger than it currently is. B. some social problems are beyond the competence of legislatures to solve. C. a prime minister should cooperate more with his or her head of state. D. legislatures should be larger than they are.