Congress Uses a Variety of Methods to Keep Its Bureaucratic

question 67

Multiple Choice

Congress uses a variety of methods to keep its bureaucratic agents in line including ______.

• A) firing the head of independent agencies and regulatory commissions whenever Congress disagrees with them politically
• B) recalling petitions, public referenda, and other grassroots approaches
• C) executive vetoes
• D) hearings and investigations, mandatory reporting, and limitation riders

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Definitions:

Situational Influences

External factors or environmental conditions that impact an individual's behavior, attitudes, or actions in a given context.

Personal Dispositions

Patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that are unique to an individual, contributing to how one responds to their environment.

Attitudes

Attitudes are psychological tendencies expressed by evaluating entities with some degree of favor or disfavor.

Attribution

The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events, often as either internal dispositions or external situations.