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 do not meet the president's labor standards. This is an example of ________.

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This scenario is an example of bureaucratic drift, where the actions of a bureaucratic agency (in this case, the agency created by President Bartlett) start to deviate from the original policy goals or directives set by the government or its leaders, due to the agency's own dynamics or the beliefs of its members.

President Bartlett Creates an Agency Dedicated to Ensuring That All