President Bartlett creates an agency dedicated to ensuring that all U.S.trading partners must meet strict labor standards or face stiff tariffs.He staffs the agency with experts in trade and economics to ensure that the standards make sense and are followed strictly.However,many of these experts believe that trade regulations are harmful,ultimately isolating countries and leading to poorer working conditions. Over time,agency employees' own beliefs take precedence,and they become more and more relaxed about enforcing standards and begin to decrease fines against countries that don't meet the president's labor standards.This is an example of ____________________.

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President Bartlett creates an agency dedicated to ensuring that all U.S.trading partners must meet strict labor standards or face stiff tariffs.He staffs the agency with experts in trade and economics to ensure that the standards make sense and are followed strictly.However,many of these experts believe that trade regulations are harmful,ultimately isolating countries and leading to poorer working conditions.	Over time,agency employees' own beliefs take precedence,and they become more and more relaxed about enforcing standards and begin to decrease fines against countries that don't meet the president's labor standards.This is an example of ____________________.

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This scenario demonstrates bureaucratic drift, where the agency responsible for enforcing the president's labor standards becomes less strict over time and deviates from the original policy goals due to the beliefs and preferences of its own personnel. Bureaucratic capture (E) refers to when an agency's policies are heavily influenced by the industry it regulates, which is not the case here. Police-patrol oversight (A) involves active and routine monitoring, which may not be the case here since the agency has become more relaxed about enforcing standards. Fire-alarm oversight (B) involves only responding when someone alerts the agency to a violation, which is also not the case here since there is an agency in place to actively enforce standing policy. Coalitional drift (D) refers to changes in policy goals due to changes in the political coalition that supports them, which does not seem to be the case here.

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