Deck 4: Understanding the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: The Department of State

Question 1

The ______ is an administrative organization responsible for carrying out the day-to-day business of government.

A) bureaucracy
B) court
C) legislature
D) presidency

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following institutions is often referred to as the "fourth branch"?

A) legislative
B) judicial
C) executive
D) bureaucracy

Answer 2

D

Question 3

According to the text, career employees who bring to and develop expertise in their jobs and serve policymakers regardless of their political party affiliation are referred to as ______.

A) bureaucrats
B) staffers
C) politicians
D) civilians

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following characteristics of a bureaucracy involves a top-down division of authority in which every official occupies a particular role and answers to a superior?

A) specialization
B) hierarchy
C) organization
D) routinization

Question 5

Which of the following characteristics of a bureaucracy involves differentiated roles, tasks, and perspectives?

A) specialization
B) hierarchy
C) organization
D) routinization

Question 6

Positions in the bureaucracy become increasingly specialized as ______.

A) people move up the bureaucratic hierarchy
B) people move down the bureaucratic hierarchy
C) people remain in the same place within the hierarchy
D) people move away from the bureaucratic hierarchy

Question 7

Developing repertories or standard processes for engaging in their duties is an example of ______.

A) routinization
B) specialization
C) formality
D) hierarchy

Question 8

Competing senses of mission and subcultures can result in ______.

A) cultural relativism
B) racism
C) ethnocentrism
D) parochialism

Question 9

Who is considered to be the chief administrator of the bureaucracy?

A) the Vice President
B) the President
C) the Speaker of the House
D) the Supreme Court justices

Question 10

The largest of all executive branch organizations is the ______.

A) Central Intelligence Agency
B) Department of State
C) Department of Homeland Security
D) Department of Defense

Question 11

Which of the following independent agencies or governmental corporations regulates waterborne domestic and foreign commerce?

A) Environmental Protection Agency
B) Federal Maritime Commission
C) National Endowment for Democracy
D) Department of Transportation

Question 12

Which of the following bureaucratic characteristics highlights the complexity of the bureaucracy?

A) routinization
B) hierarchy
C) formalization
D) specialization

Question 13

Which of the following has contributed to the fading distinction between foreign and domestic policy?

A) hierarchy
B) specialization
C) routinization
D) globalization

Question 14

Which of the following is considered to be an intermestic policy?

A) education
B) transportation
C) welfare
D) health care

Question 15

The growth in domestic and economic agencies within the bureaucracy was a result of ______.

A) the War on Terrorism
B) the Cold War
C) the New Deal
D) the Great Society programs

Question 16

Which of the following departments was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

A) Department of Justice
B) Department of Transportation
C) Department of Defense
D) Department of Homeland Security

Question 17

Since World War II, the foreign policy process has become ______.

A) State-Department centered
B) White-House centered
C) Congress centered
D) Citizen centered

Question 18

Members of the State Department are known as ______.

A) cabinet officials
B) congressional staffers
C) foreign service officers
D) federal agents

Question 19

Weighing the interests and concerns of a foreign service officers-assigned country more heavily than those of the United States is referred to as ______.

A) nepotism
B) parochialism
C) clientelism
D) favoritism

Question 20

The ______ is the chief officer responsible for governing and managing the State Department for the president.

A) secretary of state
B) deputy secretary of state
C) undersecretary of state
D) assistant secretary of state

Question 21

______ are each responsible for supervising a broad area, such as public affairs or civilian security, among others.

A) Deputy assistant secretaries
B) Assistant secretaries
C) Undersecretaries
D) Deputy secretaries

Question 22

Which of the following individuals is considered to be the chief of mission, the highest representative of the United States stationed abroad?

A) deputy secretary
B) ambassador
C) deputy chief of mission
D) undersecretary

Question 23

Which of the following bureaus is considered to be the most prestigious?

A) European
B) Western Hemisphere
C) South and Central Asian
D) African

Question 24

The US Agency for International Development is housed within the ______.

A) Department of Commerce
B) Department of Defense
C) Department of State
D) Department of Interior

Question 25

Which of the following terms is defined as a common set of goals and norms acquired by individuals within a group or organization?

A) specialization
B) behavior
C) subculture
D) identify

Question 26

Culture is to an organization what ______ is to an individual.

A) education
B) genetics
C) personality
D) appearance

Question 27

Which of the following is an example of how rules and norms can be informally enforced?

A) implementing a promotion system
B) instituting personnel evaluations
C) disseminating department guidelines
D) peer interaction

Question 28

Which of the following is considered to be a characteristic of the foreign service subculture?

A) an emphasis on the policy instruments of diplomacy and negotiation
B) a tendency to be pluralist
C) a preference for domestic experience
D) a tendency to be specialists

Question 29

The entrance into the foreign service was historically based on ______.

A) merit
B) talent
C) pedigree
D) experience

Question 30

Prior to the existence of the airplane and telephone, communication between American officials was conducted via ______.

A) postal service
B) diplomatic pouch
C) telegram
D) cable

Question 31

The effort to confine the Soviet empire to Eastern Europe and China was considered to be a ______.

A) détente strategy
B) containment strategy
C) consolidation strategy
D) engagement strategy

Question 32

It has often been argued that the State Department is ______.

A) responsive
B) slow
C) transparent
D) open to change

Question 33

Overall, the perception of the State Department has been ______.

A) significantly positive
B) negative
C) slightly positive
D) neutral

Question 34

Mike Pompeo's bond with President Trump is comparable to that of ______.

A) Clinton and Obama
B) Kissinger and Nixon
C) Rice and Bush
D) Powell and Bush

Question 35

Mike Pompeo's approach to the Secretary of State role emphasized which side of the insider-outsider dilemma?

A) insider orientation
B) outsider orientation
C) neither the insider nor outsider orientation
D) a bit of both the insider and outsider orientations

Question 36

According to the text, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempted to focus on downsizing the State Department to improve ______.

A) effectiveness
B) equity
C) transparency
D) efficiency

Question 37

According to the text, Rex Tillerson positioned himself at what end of the inside-outside dilemma?

A) He took on the insider orientation.
B) He took on the outsider orientation.
C) He never managed to position himself either end of the dilemma.
D) He engaged his staff, while maintain a relationship with the president.

Question 38

Where did Hillary Clinton, President Obama's secretary of state, stand on the insider-outsider dilemma?

A) Clinton took on the insider orientation.
B) Clinton took on the outsider orientation.
C) Clinton never managed to position himself either end of the dilemma.
D) Clinton engaged her staff, while maintaining a relationship with the president.

Question 39

Where did Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's secretary of state, stand in the insider-outsider dilemma?

A) She remained connected to her staff, the foreign service officers.
B) She remained connected to the White House.
C) She had an equal connection to both her staff and the White House.
D) She did not have a successful connection with neither the White House nor her staff.

Question 40

Which of the following was identified as the "heart and soul" of the contemporary State Department?

A) postal service
B) diplomatic pouch
C) telephone
D) cable traffic

Question 41

Virtually every department and agency in the executive branch contains an international component.

Question 42

An important function of the State Department is to represent the US government overseas.

Question 43

Historically, membership in the foreign service consisted of men who were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants from wealthy, urban families who often attended Ivy League schools.

Question 44

America's growing global role during World War II and the Cold War decreased president power in the making foreign policy.

Question 45

The president always turns to the State Department for information, advice, and management of the national security process.

Question 46

What do bureaucratic agencies do?

Question 47

Identify the three characteristics that form the foundation of bureaucratic structure and processes?

Question 48

What are the five major purposes or missions for which the State Department was created?

Question 49

Why are foreign service officers more likely to be generalists than specialists?

Question 50

What are some of the common complaints regarding the State Department?