1. Explain the three reasons noted in lecture why bureaucracies tend not to shrink in the U. S. Discuss the workings of the iron triangles, and why reducing their power or reforming them appears to be so difficult. What could be tried within the Constitution's limits to do so?

Explanation:

There are currently fifteen cabinet departments in the federal government. Cabinet departments are major executive offices that are directly accountable to the president. They include the Departments of State, Defense, Education, Treasury, and several others. Occasionally, a department will be eliminated when government officials decide its tasks no longer need direct presidential and congressional oversight, such as happened to the Post Office Department in 1970.