Chapter 15 bureaucracy

Today the federal government contains how many Cabinet departments... 10, 12, 14, 15, 20

15

an agency such as the EPA makes an important decision is quite likely to be taken to court this is an example of what government bureaucracy, red tape, impedimentary government, reciprocal Administration, adversary culture

Adversary culture

the fact that you jincy's usually recruit their own staff often on a name request basis should lead us to expect that these recruits will possess the... Legal viewpoints of a relevant interest group, political will to initiate new struggles, agency point of view, necessary expertise to advise political officials, intelligence of a turnip

Agency point of view

One can find elements of government by proxy in the administration of Environmental Protection, collection of income taxes, Social Security, Medicare, all of the above

All of the above

career bureaucrats are more likely than average citizens to Hold liberal views, trust government, vote for Democrats, all of the above, hold conservative views

All of the above

the definition of bureaucracy includes all of the following Notions except... A large organization, Authority divided among several managers, complexity of structure, appointed officials, an issue Network

An issue Network

when Congress formally sets aside money for a specific use it's called a... Our location, appropriation, monetary enhancement measure, fiscal measure, authorization measure

Appropriation

the main reason some interest groups are important to agencies is that these groups... have a long tradition behind them, can supplement agency funds, are important to Congress, are Grassroots organizations, can redirect agency funds

Are important to Congress

Defenders of government by proxy argue that the system Is expensive but efficient, produces , advantage of private and nonprofit skills, defends the principle of federalism, BCD

BCD

The Whistleblower protection act of 1989 is designed to protect Agencies that are being undermined by their employees, bureaucrat to tell on their boss's, bureaucrats who are not career employees, agencies that are being undermined by Congress, agency had to fire employees for misconduct

Bureaucrats who tell on their bosses

the freedom of info Act and the administrative procedure act are examples of constraints on bureaucracy, early unconstitutional attempts to retain bureaucracy, laws that apply to only Congress, regulations that principally limit executive powers , laws that apply only to Congressional staff

Constraints on bureaucracy

a dramatic increase in size of the federal bureaucracy occurred during the 20th century largely as a consequence of A) the growth of patronage and the rise of political parties B) the 16th Amendment in the Social Security Act C) a desire for limited government and an end to earlier regulatory practices D) the Great Depression in the 1930s and World II E) the rise of special interest groups in unions

D) the Great Depression of the 1930s in World War II

the importance and power of the federal bureaucratic agency today can be measured in part by the total number of federal employees or more accurately by the number of agencies that now form the federal bureaucracy, discretionary authority of its appointed officials, number of employees who spend the money, number of employees who write the regulations, High portion of full-time employees on the gov payroll

Discretionary authority of appointed officials

which of the following statements concerning the Pendleton Act is incorrect... It was in part a response to the assassination of President Garfield ,, it enhance the power of patronage in federal appointments ,, it was passed during Republican Administration,, it was in part a response to public outrage over abusive spoil system,, it was past avoid Mass firings of Republican

Enhance the power of patronage in federal appointments

The legislative veto was declared unconstitutional in Immigration and Naturalization Service vs. Chadha, Brown versus Board of Education, Marbury versus Madison, US versus Nixon, Donnell versus Tarkenton

Immigration and Naturalization Service vs. Chadha

the text suggests that no president wants to admit that he or she has blank the bureaucracy ... reformed reinvented reorganized increase the size of or decrease the size of

Increase the size

The relationship among us agency a committee and an interest group was described in the past as... Red tape, an issue Network, a flexible triumvirate, iron Triangle, laissez-faire

Iron triangle

The investigative power of congress is clearly outlined in Article 1, is clearly outlined in Article 1 and 2, is not mentioned, has been inferred from the power to legislate, is both C and D

Is both C and D

when the text speaks of discretionary authority of appointed officials and means their authority to Ask about specific executive Direction, Act on behalf of gov officials and represent the gov in courts of law, make policies that are not spelled out in advance by laws, shift Federal monies from agency to agency depending on need, spend Federal monies even though they are not officially part of federal bureaucracy

Make policies that are not spelled out in advance by laws

during most of the 1800s appointments to the Civil Service were based primarily on dot-dot-dot patronage, Merit, education, wealth, experience in government

Patronage

bureaucratic inefficiency might be desirable in that it might help... Protect our liberties, reduce spending, create an environment of dependency, restrict conflicts between the branches, increase trust in government

Protect our liberties

buying American using minority contractors and paying the prevailing wage are all examples of Red tape that drives up costs list, practices by public agencies, a bureaucracy released from political control, practices by private agencies, non-controversial bureaucratic routines

Red tape that drives up costs

most federal agencies must share their functions with... Congressional staff, White House staff, related state agencies, interest groups, private corporations

Related state agencies

using the buddy system an agency can circumvent the usual office of personnel management search processes by Issuing a merit dispensation, asking the president to appoint a specific candidate, limiting the scope of a search to a specific region, blanketing in a job candidate, tailoring the job description to specific candidate

Tailoring a job description to specific candidate

blank funds operate outside of the regular government budget and their Appropriations Committee have no control over these expenditures... trust, monetary, treasury, Federal Reserve, none of the above is true

Trust

the authors suggest that ultimately red tape comes from... Us the people, the executive branch, Congress, power-hungry bureaucrats, iron triangles

Us the people

periodically the size of bureaucracy has grown substantially these times of growth have generally occur during Honeymoon of presidency, election years, wars, recessions, periods of prosperity

Wars

which of the following is probably the biggest most common or at least most notice and complained about bureaucratic pathology Conflict, imperialism, duplication, waste (of money), patronage

Waste of money

Iron triangles are less common today than they once were because... Agencies today are pressured by so many more interest groups, they are no longer allowed by many agencies, Congressional leadership is so much stronger today, special interest groups have a line themselves with Congressional leaders, the courts have stepped in to limit the intervention of interest groups in agency affairs

agencies today I pressured by so many more interest groups

the number of civilians working for the federal bureaucracy has not increased much since 1960 this observation fails however to account for the... Decrease in gov Workforce that occurred between 1986 and 1990, increase in gov Workforce that occurred between 65 and 70, increase and state bureaucracy that occurred during this., increase in local bureaucracies that occurred during this period, growing number of people who work in directly for the government

growing number of people who work in directly for the government