One agency supports tobacco farmers while another tries to discourage smoking. These competing goals come about for which of the following reasons?

A. because the government is so large that the other branches of government are no longer in control of the bureaucracy
B. because of divided government
C. because the two major political parties disagree on so much regarding appropriate policy
D. because government pursues overlapping and conflicting goals in response to the diverse demands Americans place on it

Answer: D

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