What are some of the barriers to successful congressional oversight?
What will be an ideal response?
Students could address a variety of issues, including the following: unified government may dampen oversight; committees may develop friendly alliances with or biases toward the agencies they authorize, fund, and oversee; the fact that many oversight tools (such as appropriations or new statutes) are blunt tools; and difficulties with assessing when an agency is failing to follow the law.
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Concern over the Vietnam syndrome would be most likely to cause the president to do which of the following?
a. enter into a military conflict to counter communist influences b. avoid a potentially unwinnable military conflict with significant American fatalities c. use conventional military weapons and tactics instead of diplomacy d. promote foreign policy goals using executive agreements rather than treaties
Which of these techniques is used to influence which candidates win office?
a. lobbying b. posting c. franking d. electioneering