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Crash Course Government and Politics
Bureaucracy Basics: Crash Course Government #15
Season 1
Episode 15
Bureaucracies tend to be associated with unintelligible rules and time-wasting procedures, but they play an important, though controversial, role in governing. From the FDA to the EPA, these agencies were established to help the government manage and carry out laws much more efficiently - to bring the rule making and enforcement closer to the experts.
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