AP Gov Chapter 15

Which is the newest Cabinet department?

Homeland Security

________ is a hiring and promotion system based on knowing the right people, working in an election campaign, making large political donations, and / or having the right connections to win jobs with the government

The patronage system

Amtrak and the United States Postal Service are examples of

government corporations

An "iron triangle" consists of

a bureaucratic agency, an interest group, and a Congressional committee or subcommittee

Issues networks are

a growing participatory force in bureaucratic decision making whose members' interest in issues is intellectual or emotional rather than material

Which of the following would be included in a plum book?

ambassador posts

In addition to a hierarchical authority structure, Max Weber argued that a bureaucracy involves all of the following EXCEPT

an incentive system.

The main job of federal bureaucrats is to

implement and regulate government policies.

Which of the following is NOT a reason that policy implementation sometimes breaks down in the federal bureaucracy?

lack of standard operating procedures

Each of the following is a criticism of regulation EXCEPT that it

lowers prices.

Independent regulatory agencies have

powerful rule-making, dispute-settling, and enforcement authority

The Hatch Act, passed in 1940,

prohibits federal Civil Service employees from active participation in partisan politics.

Government corporations

provide services and charge for them

The use of government authority to control or change some practice in the private sector is known as

regulation

Which of the following is NOT a method a President can use to control the bureaucracy?

rewrite statutes to make instructions clearer as to how policies are intended

Those civil service employees who are in constant contact with public and have considerable discretion are known as

street-level bureaucrats

The federal civil service was created by

the Pendleton Act.

The rationale for all civil service systems is based on

the merit principle

Which of the following is NOT true about standard operating procedures?

Each federal department and agency has a plum book which lists its standard operating procedures.

To limit bureaucratic discretion and make its instructions clearer, Congress can

write new and more detailed legislation.