By Regulating Career Advancement, Providing for the Orderly Resolution of Competition

question 79

Multiple Choice

By regulating career advancement, providing for the orderly resolution of competition, and attending to postcareer care of elected and appointed party officials, political parties deal directly with the problem of

• A)groupthink.
• B)unrestrained individual ambition.
• C)collective action in the electoral process.
• D)collective choice in the policy-making process.
• E)institutional barriers to policy change.

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