What is not a character of the Bureaucracy?

The network news is reporting that a prominent U.S. Senate race is very close, with the polls showing that the incumbent leads the challenger by just two percentage points. This is an example of what type of news coverage?

a. horse race coverage b. yellow journalism c. non-substantive d. partisan-based

Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel attributes

differences in levels of economic development to ____________. a. corruption b. culture c. geography d. institutions