Praxis II Government and Political Science

Answer: A - Historically, bureaucracies have grown significantly during periods of war. Bureaucracy is the collective organizational structure, procedures, protocols, and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations and government. A bureaucracy does not create policy but enacts it. Law, policy, and regulation originate from leadership, which creates the bureaucracy to put them into practice. By and large, war time has often led to a great growth in government bureaucracy in the United States. And by the nature of bureaucracies, once they grow, it is very difficult to reduce their size.