Question
Charles Goodsell made a polemical case for this system in a book that inspired the Blacksburg Manifesto. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this system of public administration that Max Weber (“VAY-bur”) saw as necessary for the modern state, though he warned that it could impose an “iron cage” of rationalization on society.
ANSWER: bureaucracy [prompt on civil service]
[10h] This public choice theorist posited that rational bureaucrats will always attempt to maximize their budgets. An environmentalist libertarian think tank is named for him.
ANSWER: William Niskanen (“niss-CAN-in”) [or William Arthur Niskanen; accept Niskanen Center]
[10m] Faizul Latif Chowdhury argued that bureaucrats engage in this behavior, whose name was popularized by Anne Krueger. Regulatory capture can enable this behavior, whose low cost is the subject of Tullock’s paradox.
ANSWER: rent-seeking [or rent-seekers; reject “rent”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Toronto A | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |