Why did the size of the federal bureaucracy increase substantially over the course of the twentieth century?

What will be an ideal response?

An ideal response will:
1, Explain that the bureaucracy started with just four departments at the time of the nation's founding and has since expanded dramatically, with much growth occurring in the twentieth century.
2, Factors that led to the creation of new government agencies include industrialization, urbanization, immigration, economic problems, and involvement in wars.
3, Provide one or more examples to illustrate the needs that government agencies were created to fulfill, such as those designed as part of Roosevelt's New Deal to bring the country out of the Depression, or those designed in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s and the needs of veterans.

Political Science

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Briefly explain the roles of legislative proposals and revision commissions in amending state constitutions

What will be an ideal response?

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Theories of the causes of war at the interstate level of analysis __________

A) are not as contradictory as at the individual or domestic levels of analysis B) provide an accurate basis for predicting future wars C) predict that war occurs when power is relatively equally distributed and a rising power is threatening to overtake a declining one D) refute the position that today's military technology is too powerful to use in most conflicts

Political Science