intro to state and local government ch. 9, Introduction to state and local government chapter 10, Introduction to state and local government chapter 11
A budget page that listed dollars allocated for such purposes as supplies postage and travel would be an example of:
A line item budget
The study of peoples encounters with public bureaucracies found:
A majority it's for a satisfaction with their own encounters with the bureaucracy
Under determinate sentencing:
A prisoner must serve a fist number of years, regardless of participation in rehabilitation programs or good behavior
Concerning administrators and executives, the text argues that:
Administrators are professionals, while executives are often amateurs
A plan for getting more minorities and women hired in promoted into career level public positions is:
Affirmative action
Among the informal criteria for getting elected governor are:
An appropriate background and an appropriate campaign strategy.
Which of the following is most likely to be in the uniform crime reports.?
Automobile theft
Policy implementation takes primarily place at the hands of
Bureaucrats
Which of the following it's not considered a crime against a person?
Burglary
Politics can affect the court system in which of the following ways?
By the methods of selecting judges, by patronage, and by politically biased decisions
Studies on the effects of judges backgrounds on their decisions found that:
Catholic judges were more likely to favor workers than employers in Workmen's compensation cases
When the governor represents the state in Washington DC, he or she is demonstrating a governors role as:
Chief of state
Which of the following was not identified as a role of the governor?
Chief records officer
Sexual-harassment in the workplace is a legal under:
Civil rights act
Which of the following is least likely to be an elected, statewide office?
Comptroller
Since the 1990s the crime rate in the United States has :
Decreased significantly
While reformers generally just like plea-bargaining detects noted that:
Defendants may prefer to except the certainty of a letter sentence for lesser charge then risk of conviction on a more serious charge in a longer sentence, prosecutors may prefer a certain guilty plea to a lesser charge rather than risk having the defendant found innocent on a trial, and a large majority of felony charges are settled by plea-bargaining
Huey long, former governor of Louisiana, is exemplary of which style of gubernatorial leader ship:
Demagogue
State legislation has been moving increasingly towards:
Determinate sentencing
Which of the following is not one of the general principles pursued by advocates of the state re-organization movement?
DividingThe largest state departments into numerous smaller agencies reduce political power
Motor fuel taxes, which can only be used to pay for road and highway construction and maintenance, or an example of:
Earmarked revenues
More people work in___then other segment of state and local government.
Education
Affirmative action programs are designed to advance the position of African-Americans and do not apply to other minority groups.
False
Decisions made by state supreme courts are final and cannot be appealed to the US Supreme Court
False
Governors to respond poorly to natural and other disasters suffer very few political consequences
False
In every state, the lieutenant governor is next in line of succession if the governor is unable to serve out his or her term
False
Interest groups have no influence in judicial politics
False
Judicial review, the act of courts determining the constitutionality of a law, is among the most non--controversial acts of the judicial process.
False
Spending in state gubernatorial campaigns has decreased considerably in the past 25 years
False
The background of those serving in the judiciary has little influence over their decisions
False
The fact any agencies are made up of both professional administrators and amateur executives elected or appointed to hit the agency means that there is little tension or disagreement within the agency.
False
The governor has no role in setting the legislative agenda; this is solely a function of the state legislature
False
The merit system of judicial selection is popular because it's completely removes politics from the selection of judges
False
Thus far, the US Supreme Court has been consistent and unwavering in support of affirmative action programs
False
We need to comes to criminal justice policy, there are a few differences between liberals and conservatives
False
A serious crime such as murder, robbery, or arson in a :
Felony
In___the Supreme Court ruled that states must provide attorneys in felony cases for defendant who cannot afford one.
Gideon v. Wainwright
All of the following are examples of white collar crime except:
Grand larceny
The political party is important to the success of the governors because:
If the governors party has a cohesive majority in the legislator, passing his/her proposals will be easier, and if the governors party controls the presidency, getting cooperation from the White House will be easier, and governors need party support to get nominated and really liked it (all of the above)
In 1977 Wisconsin Passed a civil service reform law that:
Increase the number of top level policymaking officials that the governor can appoint
The administrative re-organization movement does not include which of the following?
Increasing the number of elected executive positions
A form of budgeting in which budgetary changes are usually rather small is :
Incremental budgeting
The budgeting process in which budget change proportionally small amounts from each year is called:
Incrementalism
The demand for executive representation coincided with the period of:
Jacksonian Democracy.
Judges who interpret long narrowly are said to be practicing which of the following:
Judicial restraint
Courts get involved in public policy making primarily through their power of:
Judicial review
"Three strikes and you're out" policies try to:
Keep career criminals in prison
Which of the following was not an integral element of PPB?
Listing of expenditures by line item
A system of administrative control, under which agency heads manage their subordinates through a system of goalsetting is:
MBO
A supreme court case which required police officers to inform us aspect of the right to remain silent and consult an attorney was:
Miranda V. Arizona
The right to speak to a lawyer before interrogation was established in:
Miranda V. Arizona
A minor crimes such as stealing a small amount of money is a:
Misdemeanor
The state famous for pioneering the merit plan of selecting judges was:
Missouri
A comparison of state agencies headed by a single executive with state agencies headed by boards or commissions found that:
Multi headed commissions improve representation in bureaucratic process
All of the following are examples of limited jurisdiction courts except:
Municipal courts
Research into the question of whether the merit plan of judicial selection leads to more qualified I just asked included:
Neither a nor B
Civil service systems of public service employment are most consistent with the political value of:
Neutral competence
This state was the first to establish a merit based civil service system
New York
The first civil-service law was passed in:
New York in 1883
On the index of formal powers of the governors, which of the following states has the weakest governor?
North Carolina
___is the only state without process for impeaching of a governor
Oregon
A system of public service employment in which workers are hired on the basis of political connection is:
Patronage
A practice through which the prosecutor may offered to drop some charges or agree to a lighter sentence is the defendant pleads guilty to some charges is:
Plea bargaining
City officials in Houston in New York City credited the reduction in crime rates in the 1990s to the improved use of:
Policing
John Engel's style of gubernatorial leadership in Michigan is best referred to as:
Policy Entrepreneur.
In Rutan v the republican party of Illinois (1990), the US Supreme Court ruled that:
Policy level officials may be fired for political parties and reasons but lower level officials may not
The trans since the 1980s towards increasing reliance or non-governmental firms to provide public services called:
Privatization
When government contracts with private firms to provide public services it is practicing:
Privatization
A systematic analysis of programs to see if theyAccomplish their objective is:
Program evaluation
___Refers to former inmates who end up back in the prison because they keep committing crimes
Recidivism
In discussing the rule of juries, the text concluded all of the following except that:
Reducing the size of juries and permitting conviction by less than a unanimous decision helps the defendant in criminal cases
___Is the idea the different ethnic in categorical groups should be proportionally represented in the public bureaucracy
Representative bureaucracy
The application of the federal bill of rights to the states is called:
Selective incorporation
To reduce the problems caused by race and/or sex bias in government, all of the following have been proposed except:
Seniority
The fact that administrators are permanent employees while executives are temporary employees officials leads to:
Tension between administrators and Executives
Which of the following methods of selecting is the most favored by judicial reformers?
The Missouri plan
Which of the following would be most likely to attribute the cost of crime to social injustice?
The liberal
A state's bar association would probably have the most influence in which of the following methods of judicial selection?
The merit plan
___Is a recruitment method that hires and promotes public employees on the basis of the training and competence
The merit system
The executive branch official who supervises elections is:
The secretary of state
Larry Sabato study of governors judged about a third of them to be outstanding. What street did outstanding governors tend to share
They were younger
Administrative reform that seeks to instill performance-based ethos in the bureaucracy into public as customer is:
Total quality management (TQM).
A municipality outsourcing it's trash collection to a company such as waste management will be an example of privatization
True
A popular criticism of the civil service system argues that public employees enjoy higher salaries than their kind of parts in the public sector.
True
According to the text, the privatization of prison raises significant constitutional issues
True
Among the problems with the patronage system was that it undercut the need for a greater expertise among public employees.
True
As the most visible state official, the governor is expected to take responsibility for the state's economic condition
True
Citizens tend to hold the governor responsible in the states economy suffers from my prolong recession.
True
Collective bargaining often conflicts with other civil service rules over the issue of seniority
True
Conservative views on crime usually place responsibility with individual criminals rather than larger social problems
True
Former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, who won office running on a third-party ticket was in a temple of someone who leads a frustrated warrior
True
In recent years, state and local governments have started to recognize the need to offer more flexible policies that allow employees to better balance the responsibilities of work and family.
True
Informal technology, especially the Internet, has drastically changed the operation of state and local agencies
True
It is not uncommon for state and local agencies to make initial budget request well beyond the agency's expected need.
True
One unintended result of get-tough on crime Policies is a significant increase in the elderly prison population.
True
Someone's in the governors are like that separately from a state's governor
True
Susana Martines's election is governor of New Mexico illustrates the increase in success of women and minorities in gubernatorial elections
True
The expectations place on governor says changed considerably over the course of American history.
True
The overwhelming majority of cases in state and local courts are civil rather than criminal cases
True
Robert Martinson's assessment of 231 studies of criminal offenders concluded that:
With few exceptions, rehabilitation programs have no appreciable effect on recidivism
At the level professional work in the State and local governments:
Women hold a majority of the jobs
The exclusionary rule:
a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial.
In providing policy leadership in a state, the governor does all of the following EXCEPT:
acting as a forum for the public deliberation of competing policy proposals.
Reforms to strengthen the governor's administrative powers include:
allowing the governor to appoint a cabinet of department heads.
The line-item veto:
allows the governor to veto specific parts of a bill while letting the rest of the bill become law
The provision whereby governors in some states can add sums to appropriations bills, subject to legislative approval is the:
amendatory veto.
Probably the most effective use of the veto is:
as a bargaining chip to help revise legislative proposals.
A state executive with responsibility to ensure that state funds were spent in accord with state law is the:
auditor.
According to Larry Sabato's study of governors, the quality of governors in recent years compared to those of the mid-twentieth century and earlier:
has improved.
Probably the most visible measure of a governor's success is:
how much of his/her legislative program passes in the legislature.
Among the obstacles to strong administrative leadership by governors is/are:
independently elected state executives, the autonomy of most individual departments, and the relationships that exist between state agencies and interest groups.
Control over the state budget enhances the governor's powers because:
it enables the governor to set priorities among state policies and programs.
Major sources of strength for a governor are:
legislative powers such as the veto, administrative powers such as the appointment power, & high-quality administrative staff.
Which of the following is not regarded as a source of strength for most governors? System
other elected state executives
Our expectations of state and local executives have gone through three historical states. Which of the following is not among the three stages?
polarized pluralism
All of the following are major formal powers of the governor EXCEPT:
power of personality.
Veto overrides:
rarely occur.
If a governor has a good chance to move up the career ladder to a U.S. Senate seat or a national Cabinet position:
that may cause legislators and administrators to be more responsive to the governor in hopes of landing a Washington, D.C. job.
In granting pardons, paroles, reprieves, and in commuting sentences, the governor performs the role of:
ultimate judge.
Members of the governor's staff perform all of the following tasks EXCEPT:
voting in legislative committees.
