Trends involving third parties' discretion in the use of public authority and in spending of public funds
a. has created a better opportunity for citizen involvement in government decisions.
b. has raised serious concerns about equity and accountability in public program management.
c. has had little impact on shaping the public service.
d. is counter to recent reform-agenda goals.
b
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Which of the following is true regarding the "separate but equal" interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment?
A. It was viewed as the second Bill of Rights by minorities. B. It brought the freed slaves into mainstream society. C. It became the foundation for constitutional segregation. D. It became the founding principle of the civil rights movement.
Which of these statements best summarizes Gilpin's perspective on the existence of an interdependent international economy?
a. It is destined to fragment into autarkic national economies. b. It exists to serve the interests of the dominant economic class. c. It emerges spontaneously because it makes all states in the system better off. d. It demonstrates that nation-states play no meaningful role in the international political economy. e. It exists because it maximizes aggregate wealth, but it cannot exist without a dominant power to sustain it.