POS 1041 Chapter 14
The salary range for white-collar federal civil service employees ranges is, approximately:
$18,300-133,500
Which of the following was the first independent regulatory commission established by the federal government?
Interstate Commerce Commission
What is the name given to the book, published every four years, that lists the federal positions available through presidential patronage?
Plum book
The assassination of which president by an unsuccessful seeker of a patronage position spurred passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act in1883?
President James Garfield
What title is given to the top political appointee who heads each of the national government's 15 departments?
Secretary
The first two cabinet departments were
State and Treasury
Which of the following open up government functions and documents to the public, ensuring transparency and public access to decision making?
Sunshine laws
What type of clause forces the expiration of a program or policy after a specified number of years without congressional reauthorization?
The Sunset Clause
Before the establishment of the civil service system in 1883, what system of hiring was used to staff the federal bureaucracy?
The president hired bureaucrats through the patronage system.
Which of the following statements about the boards of independent regulatory commissions is true?
These agencies are under the direction of bipartisan boards
Which of the following mechanisms is used by bureaucrats to determine if their rules have been broken and to impose penalties on violators
administrative adjudication
Under what authority do bureaucrats have the power to use their expertise and judgment to implement public policy?
administrative discretion
Which of the following was one of the first laws designed to enhance federal bureaucratic accountability to the people?
administrative procedure act
A bureaucracy that follows Weber's ideal bureaucratic structure has all of the following characteristics, EXCEPT
all workers rotating through all tasks.
Which of the following is the fourth stage in the public policy cycle?
appropriation approval
As compared to private-sector employees, all of the following statements about public servants are accurate EXCEPT that public servants
are far less satisfied in their positions.
Which of the following is expected to make enough money to cover its own costs?
government corporation
Which act of Congress, passed in 1976, requires most multi-headed national agencies to conduct open, public meetings?
government in the Sunshine Act
What is the biggest downside to holding a patronage position in the federal bureaucracy?
no job security
What factor(s) do political scientists use to distinguish among national bureaucrats?
how they are hired, and how they can be fired
Federal civil servants can be fired for not doing their work, or
nonfeasance
The civil service system created by the Pendleton Civil Service Act is guided by which hiring principle(s)?
open competition, competence, and political neutrality
dentify the five categories of executive branch organizations used by political scientists.
Cabinet departments. Independent executive agencies. Independent regulatory agencies. Government corporations. Presidential commissions
Which piece of legislation provided some protection to whistleblowers, those employees who disclose government misconduct, waste, or abuses of authority?
Civil Service Reform Act
The legal means to monitor bureaucrats' work and hold them accountable is possessed by
Congress, the President, and the Courts
In which of the following five-year periods did the size of the federal bureaucracy grow the MOST?
1940-1945
According to political scientists and the textbook, how many different categories of executive branch organizations are there?
5
All of the following are considered independent administrative agencies EXCEPT the
Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Which of the following is the newest of the national government's 15 federal departments?
Department of Homeland Security
Which of the following is a part of the agenda-setting stage of the public policy cycle?
Elected officials place issues on their policy agendas.
Which piece of legislation established the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), which is charged with preventing bureaucratic conflicts of interest?
Ethics in Government Act
Which of the following is a part of the federal bureaucracy that primarily serves the legislative branch?
Government accountability office
Which president proposed the civil service reforms that led to passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978?
Jimmy Carter
Based on studies cited by public administration and public policy scholar Charles Goodsell, which of the following statements is correct?
Most government employees are very motivated and hard workers.
Which of the following statements about career civil servants in senior executive service positions is FALSE?
They hold most of the top policy-related patronage positions
Which title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating in educational opportunities on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, age, and disabilities that can be reasonably accommodated?
Title VI
Which title of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in personnel practices based on race, color, ethnicity, age, and disabilities that can be reasonably accommodated?
Title VII
Which of the following federal agencies has the highest percentage of union members?
U.S. Postal Service
Which of the following refers to laws that provide plans of action to address societal concerns and identify the executive units that will put them into effect?
authorization laws
Which of the following is NOT a way in which Congress encourages bureaucratic accountability?
by making rulings as to whether agency policies comply with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 created or supported the creation of all these agencies EXCEPT the
civil service commission
Which of the following BEST describes the business of an independent regulatory commission?
development of standards for specific industries and businesses
The process by which the federal government shifts greater responsibility to state and local governments, thereby putting the implementation of national policy in the hands of state and local bureaucrats, is known as
devolution
According to Max Weber, bureaucracies possess which of the following features?
division of labor and specialization of job tasks hiring systems based on worker competency hierarchy with a vertical chain of command standard operating procedures All of these answers are correct.
Senior executive service (SES) positions are
hybrids of political appointments and civil service positions.
According to research, all of the following are important characteristics of the best-performing bureaucracies, EXCEPT
low levels of administrative discretion
Federal civil servants can be fired for violating rules or regulations that guide their work, or
malfeasance
The Pendleton Civil Service Act introduced a civil service system for the national government based on
merit
Federal civil servants can be fired for poor work quality, or
misfeasance
Which of the following is the second stage in the public policy cycle?
policy formulation
Which of the following is the fifth stage in the public policy cycle?
policy implementation
According to the politics-administration dichotomy, who implements public policy?
politically neutral bureaucrats
What criterion determines a federal job's salary?
rank
nteraction of Titles VI, VII, and IX of the Civil Rights Act has helped foster a movement toward
representative bureaucracy
Those workers who do the work of government but don't get a government paycheck are known as ________ bureaucrats.
shadow bureaucrats
According to political scientists, how many stages are there in the public policy cycle?
six
All of the following are associated with the process in which the government contracts private businesses or organizations to provide public services EXCEPT
the plum book.
Which of the following rights is denied to national civil servant unions?
the right to strike and the right to negotiate salaries and work hours
