CLEP US Government

Answer: B - The selection of bureaucrats as a political favor to some politician is not a way in which government bureaucracies in the US fail to live up to the ideals described by Max Weber. Since the institution of the civil service system, most bureaucrats are selected on the basis of merit, not on who they know. However, there are a lot of ways US bureaucracies fall short of Weber’s ideal, as outlined in Charles Lindblom’s article “The Science of Muddling Through”. Lindblom argues that the institutional designs of bureaucracies frequently discourage or make impossible performing bureaucratic functions efficiently.