AP Gov Unit 8

What do monetarist believe the government should do when the economy goes into a recession?

Cut interest rates

When a president tries to control a bureaucratic agency, all of the following methods are available to him except A) appointing the right people to head the agency B) disbanding the agency C) issuing executive orders to counteract agency policies D) recommending to the OMB a reduction of the agency's following year budget E) using the bully pulpit to influence agency direction

Disbanding the agency

Government spending on defense, education, and foreign aid is known as

Discretionary spending

The belief that government planning actions such as wage and price controls, or the direction of investments, can improve the economy is

Economic planning

Government spending on social security, medicare, and veterans affairs benefits is known as

Entitlement programs

Over the past 20 years, which area has shown the greatest increase in budgetary spending?

Entitlement programs

Federal spending is determined by laws that lie outside the regular budgetary process?

Entitlement programs such as Social Security

Which occurs when Washington DC pays state and local governments and private groups to staff and administer federal programs?

Government by proxy

The tendency of agencies to grow without regard to the benefits that their programs confer of the costs that they entail is

Imperialism

When and agency submits the name of the person it wants to hire along with the form describing the job to the OPM, it is a form of the buddy system called

A name-request job

Three points of an iron triangle include

An administrative agency, an interest group, and a congressional committee

When Congress sets aside money for a specific government program, such as disaster relief that money is a(n)

Appropriation

Permission to begin or continue a government program or agency

Authorization legislation

One of the formal tools used by Congress for oversight of the bureaucracy is

Authorization of spending

The authority of congress to block a presidential action after it has taken place is called a

Legislative veto

Publically operated enterprises account for what percent of all employment in the USA?

Less than 3%

Government spending on social security, medicare, veterans affairs benefits, and interest on the national debt, is known as

Mandatory spending

In the process and structure of public policymaking, "iron triangles" refer to the

Networks of congressional committees, bureaucratic agencies, and interest groups that strongly influence the policy process

Bureaucracy in the US government today owes most of its characteristics to patterns set in place by

New Deal programs of the Depression and tax collection methods of World War II

Entitlement programs are government programs that

Provide benefits to people who are entitles to them since they meet eligibility criteria set by law

Complex bureaucratic rules and procedures that must be followed in order to get something done are known as

Red tape

What do Keynesian believe the government should do in a recession?

Spend more money

If you were to add up the total deficit from George Washington's Administration all the way down to Barack Obama's Administration, you would get

The national debt

Congress tries to control the bureaucracy through

The use of executive orders and appointments

An advantage that bureaucrats have in the federal government over the policy-making process is that bureaucrats

Usually have a continuity of service in the executive branch that the President lacks

Which of the following is not an effect of the multiple constraints put on the bureaucracy? A) the government will often act slowly because it takes longer to get things done B)the government will sometimes act inconsistently due to multiple constraints C) it will be easier to block action than to take action D) employees will be reluctant to make decisions on their own E) citizens will complain of red tape

employees will be reluctant to make decisions on their own

The most important part of the economic policy-making machinery is

Congress

Which institution is given the constitutional power of appropriation?

Congress

Many contemporary politicians have criticized bureaucracies as

Agencies who strive to maximize their budgets and powers

When government spends more in one year than takes in from taxes, you have

Budget deficit

The first occasion during which the government made heavy use of federal income taxes on individuals and corporations to finance its activities was during

World War II