One method of collecting inputs involves ______, which appears somewhat like a court proceeding with a hearing, the taking of oral testimony from witnesses, and the use of counsel.

Bureaucracies tend to be ______ because they operate using formal rules.

a. partisan b. preferential c. impartial d. arbitrary

Practitioners of _____________ believe that a proper goal of social science is to critique and improve society (by making it more just and humane) rather than merely understand or explain what is going on.

a. Empiricism b. The scientific method c. Critical theory d. Deduction