Deck 3: The Continuous Reinventing of Government

Question 1

"Reinventing" government represents two long-standing influences in American public life-the progressive reform movement and management faddism.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

To eliminate bossism in local government, the early progressives suggested that

A) Municipalities by pass the state government and report to the federal government directly.
B) municipalites be run like a government corporation.
C) municipalities have a chief executive armed with critical administrative powers.
D) Power be concentrated through a political machine.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

A city is a municipal corporation chartered by the federal government.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

According to Dillon's Rule:

A) There is primacy of local law over state law
B) There is primacy of state over local law
C) There is primacy of local law over federal law
D) None of the above

Question 5

Independent public bodies in the United States range in purpose from public business corporations, to regulators and watchdogs, to foundations committed to worthy purposes.

Question 6

The difference between philanthropy and charity is that:

A) Philanthropy is giving based on solving social problems in a developmental manner, that invests in the future.
B) Charity is the compassionate relieving of specific instances of suffering
C) Both a and b
D) Neither is correct

Question 7

Some see President Obama's policies aimed at steering the nation out of its economic slump, as a "small government mentality."

Question 8

All Cabinet departments not equal. The "inner" cabinet members have departmental missions that make them more prominent and influential than others.

Question 9

The Commission form of county government:

A) Is the least common form of county government
B) Is the most common form of county government
C) Has legislative and executive authority
D) B and c

Question 10

The Grace Commission Report based its philosophy on the notion that:

A) Government could solve problems of the business sector
B) Leaders in the private sector could solve government problems
C) The International sector could solve the nation's problems
D) Globalization would solve national problems

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of a regulatory commission?

A) Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
B) Department of Homeland Security
C) Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)
D) A and c

Question 12

Believe it or not, there was a time when the Office of the President lacked enough personnel to do the President's work. This was remedied by the recommendation of:

A) The Brownlow Committee
B) The Grace Commission
C) The Hoover Commission
D) National Performance Review Report

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a government corporation?

A) The agency's business is essentially commercial.
B) The agency can generate its own revenue.
C) Congress provides 100 percent of the corporation's revenue.
D) The agency's mission requires greater flexibility than government agencies normally have.

Question 14

The Merit Systems Protection Board petitions the government to become a government corporation. Which of these questions will likely arise?

A) Is its business essentially commercial?
B) Does it generate its own revenue?
C) Does its mission require greater flexibility than government agencies normally have?
D) All of the above

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a cabinet-level department?

A) Health and Human Services
B) Veterans' Affairs
C) Office of Management and Budget
D) Housing and Urban Development

Question 16

In the United States the machinery of government is far more liberal than in other countries-Britain, Australia and New Zealand--for example. As a consequence, the machinery of government in America, changes frequently.

Question 17

Mr. Brown at your local Post Office is studying for his public administration degree, and he tells you that the separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, in theory, make tyrannical concentration of power impossible in government. Is this true or false?

Question 18

The non-profit sector:

A) Is a uniquely democratic phenomenon.
B) Fills economic voids with volunteers & charitable contributions
C) Provide a flexible alternative to tax-supported government action.
D) All of the above.

Question 19

The first Hoover Commission strengthened the executive office of the president and enhanced agency management.

Question 20

The county is the basic unit for administrative decentralization of state government.

Question 21

The National Performance Review was developed under Vice President Cheney in the George W. Bush administration.