US POLS Exam 2
Which of the following is true regarding the medium of Internet communication?
It is conducive to the flourishing of a prisoner's dilemma between reporters and government officials.
Which of the following statements is true regarding news outlets?
They are the organizations that gather, package, and transmit the news.
Which of the following is true about agencies that rise to the department level and gain a seat in the president's cabinet?
They receive no special powers or privileges.
NASA is an example of which of the following?
an independent executive agency
Bureaucrats are often stereotyped as ______.
inflexible
What is the main responsibility of the Federal Reserve System?
making monetary policy
According to the text, what is a great example of the way digital streaming has changed news provision and consumption?
podcasts
Whether pursuing resources or autonomy, all bureaucracies have to engage in ______.
politics that involves mobilizing supporters, gathering allies, negotiating mutually beneficial deals with other politicians, keeping in touch with people whose cooperation is needed, and adapting to the realities of power
Bureaucratic organization imposes heavy conformity costs on both bureaucrats and the people they deal with in return for ______.
reducing transaction costs and agency losses
Most people get fake news from ______.
social media
The Office of Management and Budget is best described as ______.
the president's primary control instrument over the bureaucracy
Americans prefer to ______ rather than get it another form.
watch the news
Which mid-twentieth-century president was able to overcome the prisoner's dilemma in his dealings with the press through press conferences informally known as "family gatherings"?
FDR
Bureaucrats' most important political relationship is usually with Congress. Why is this the case?
It controls the organization, authority, budgets, and staffing of agencies.
When politicians strategically give important information to the news media on the condition that its source not be identified by name, this is referred to as ______.
a leak
The equal access provision required stations to provide equal time to ______.
candidates for office