alleryGovernment bureaucracy tends toward prescriptivism to enforce what?
ARegional diversity
BFunctional continuity
CFrequent reform cycles
DOral storytelling
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Functional continuity
1. Bureaucracies need records to stay consistent over time.
2. They therefore lean toward prescriptivism to enforce functional continuity.
3. Diversity, frequent reform and storytelling work against that aim.
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