Question No. 16 (7 April 2009)

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Here's Question No. 16:

The bureaucracies headquartered along Whitehall Street in London are distinguished by the civil servants who work in them.

a. What is one characteristic of those civil servants that distinguishes them from the politicians in nearby Westminster, the meeting place of the House of Commons? (1 point)

b. Why is that characteristic so desirable of civil servants in a representative democracy? (2 points)

(See pp. 10, 35, and 54 in What You Need to Know.)

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