Discuss bureaucracies and accountability. How democratic is the federal bureaucracy? Why are federal bureaucrats so hard to remove from office? What measures have been adopted in recent years to make bureaucracies more receptive to the will of the people?

In performing an ANOVA, the total degrees of freedom are calculated by taking

A) one more than the total number of participants. B) the product of the number of participants and the number of conditions. C) one less than the total number of participants. D) the number of conditions minus one.

Why are state conventions and platforms of little importance to what nominees say and do?

a. Candidates for public office are nominated in primaries rather than in conventions. b. Candidates raise their own campaign funds independently of the party. c. Candidates need to gather support from the large number of voters, not the small number of party activists. d. Party organizations in the United States are generally quite weak. e. All of the above.