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Bureaucracy Basics: Crash Course Government #15 Crash Course Government and Politics

Premiered May 09, 2015
Bureaucracy Basics: Crash Course Government #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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Crash Course Government and Politics

Welcome to school without the classroom! Host Craig Benzine takes you through a tour of US government and politics.

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