Deck 7: The Bureaucracy

Question 1

Which branch of government is the bureaucracy referred to in your chapter?

A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fourth
E) Fifth

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Who is considered to be the father of modern bureaucracy?

A) Gerhard Loder
B) Heinz Farget
C) Max Weber
D) Lancelot Peters
E) Karl Marx

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The formal rules which characterize bureaucracies are sometimes called

A) standard bureaucratic procedures.
B) standard operating procedures.
C) optional bureaucratic procedures.
D) optional operating procedures.
E) formal rules of operation.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

________are clearly defined procedures governing the execution of all tasks within the jurisdiction of a given agency.

A) Hierarchies
B) Spoil systems
C) Bureaucracies
D) Welfare states
E) Formal rules

Question 5

In what year did Andrew Jackson usher in the spoils system?

A) 1828
B) 1838
C) 1848
D) 1858
E) 1868

Question 6

________ is a social system whereby the government assumes primary responsibility for the well being of citizens.

A) The spoils system
B) The civil service
C) The new deal
D) The Hatch Act
E) The welfare state

Question 7

The New Deal programs instituted during the Great Depression of the 1930s created

A) the welfare state.
B) millions of new jobs in the private sector.
C) renewed tensions between the United States and Great Britain.
D) a total distrust of government among most Americans.
E) a hatred of big government.

Question 8

How is President Andrew Jackson referred to in the text?

A) as a conservative
B) as a loyalist
C) as nonpolitical
D) as a populist
E) as a liberal

Question 9

A bureaucracy is a large complex organizational system which is characterized by

A) hierarchy.
B) equality.
C) plurality.
D) openness.
E) chaos.

Question 10

In what year did Congress pass the Hatch Act, which prevents federal employees from using their power to influence elections?

A) 1899
B) 1909
C) 1919
D) 1929
E) 1939

Question 11

The spoils system survived until the 1881 assassination of

A) President Harding.
B) President Cleveland.
C) President Garfield.
D) President Coolidge.
E) President Lincoln.

Question 12

What did the Pendleton Act do?

A) Applied to state governments only.
B) Created the "spoils system."
C) Ignored needed requirements for public service.
D) Created a civil service system of hiring.
E) Established the Electoral College.

Question 13

What is noted about firing federal employees?

A) It cannot be done.
B) It is hard to do.
C) It is easy to do.
D) It is illegal.
E) Federal employees are never fired.

Question 14

The Hatch Act refers to a(n)

A) state law.
B) federal law.
C) county law.
D) municipal ordinance.
E) international law.

Question 15

Specialization means that specific tasks should be delegated to

A) those persons with the most training and experience.
B) those persons with the most seniority.
C) those persons most advanced in age.
D) those persons with the best attendance record.
E) no specific individual.

Question 16

As the size and complexity of government increases, so does

A) specialization.
B) efficiency.
C) accountability.
D) responsiveness.
E) iron triangles.

Question 17

The term "spoils system" refers to

A) a system in which newer employees receive fewer benefits than those with seniority.
B) the management style of Abraham Lincoln.
C) a system in which government jobs are awarded to party loyalists.
D) a system in which government jobs are awarded to those with the best qualifications.
E) a system of networks composed of political actors in a particular policy area

Question 18

The civil service system is a system of hiring and promoting employees based upon

A) party loyalty.
B) military service.
C) who they are related to.
D) their qualifications.
E) their educational backgrounds.

Question 19

Which of the following would be a violation of the Hatch Act?

A) a federal civil servant wearing a campaign button
B) a federal civil servant posting support for a candidate on social media while using a government computer
C) a federal civil servant contributing to a political campaign
D) a federal civil servant voting
E) a federal servant assisting with voter registration.

Question 20

The federal bureaucracy performs three key governmental functions:

A) implementation, administration, and facilitation.
B) administration, facilitation, and regimentation.
C) regulation, regimentation, and administration.
D) interpret law, regulate the economy, provide checks on the Congress.
E) regulation, administration, and implementation.

Question 21

Implementation means

A) imposing penalties for noncompliance to a new law.
B) providing the organization and expertise required to put into action any policy that has become law.
C) providing incentives to states.
D) allowing state governments to participate in the policy formulation process.
E) interpreting and applying the law.

Question 22

__________ is the latitude that an agency has in interpreting and applying the law.

A) Regulation
B) Implementation
C) Appointment power
D) Presidential control
E) Administrative discretion

Question 23

Because laws passed by Congress tend to be vague, and, at times, a bit ambiguous, federal agencies are permitted a great deal of

A) civil permissiveness.
B) regulatory scope.
C) implementation directives.
D) administrative discretion.
E) latitude in their budgetary expenditures.

Question 24

Where do most federal employees work?

A) outside Washington, D. C.
B) inside Washington, D. C.
C) in the Pentagon
D) in the White House
E) in the Department of Homeland Security

Question 25

Regulation refers to

A) making rules.
B) performing routine tasks.
C) implementation of policy.
D) hiring employees.
E) spending money.

Question 26

The major administrative units responsible for conducting a broad range of government operations are called

A) regulation bureaus.
B) cabinet departments.
C) cabinet administrators.
D) department chiefs.
E) bureaucracies.

Question 27

The heads of cabinet departments are called

A) department heads.
B) presidential advisors.
C) secretaries.
D) bureau chiefs.
E) staffers.

Question 28

Agencies which have narrower responsibilities than cabinet departments are called

A) pre-cabinet departments.
B) independent agencies.
C) regulatory agencies.
D) little-cabinet departments.
E) spoils systems.

Question 29

An agency which is established to regulate a particular area of the economy is called

A) an independent agency.
B) an independent regulatory commission.
C) a cabinet department.
D) an administrative organization.
E) government corporation

Question 30

A semi-independent government agency that administers a business enterprise and takes the form of a business corporation is called a(n)

A) semi-independent agency.
B) government corporation.
C) cabinet department.
D) independent agency.
E) independent regulatory commission.

Question 31

Which of the following is not a constraint on bureaucracies?

A) Bureaucratic agencies do not control revenue
B) Other institutions mandate goals
C) Decisions must be made based on rules made elsewhere
D) Bureaucracies have latitude on implanting policy goals.
E) all of the above

Question 32

__________ is the president's power to name agency officials.

A) Veto power
B) Regulation
C) Implementation
D) Reorganization
E) Appointment power

Question 33

_________ is the power to move programs around within specific agencies.

A) Appointment power
B) Implementation
C) Regulation
D) Reorganization
E) Administration

Question 34

Which of the following presidents tried taking over the bureaucracy, giving truth to the statement, "Even paranoids have enemies"?

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
B) Bill Clinton
C) Ronald Reagan
D) George W. Bush
E) Richard Nixon

Question 35

The president can control the power of a bureaucratic agency by placing at its head persons who are committed to his or her policy preferences. This is called

A) patronage.
B) appointment power.
C) nepotism.
D) back scratching.
E) cronyism.

Question 36

The president can affect the status and prestige of an agency through the process of

A) intimidation.
B) impeachment.
C) reorganization.
D) reconfiguration.
E) favoritism.

Question 37

The most important check Congress has over the bureaucracy is

A) impeachment power.
B) reorganization power.
C) power of the purse.
D) confirmation.
E) power of persuasion.

Question 38

The practice of holding congressional hearings and conducting investigations into bureaucratic activity is called

A) administrative oversight.
B) congressional intimidation.
C) appellate jurisdiction.
D) mark-up sessions.
E) intelligence gathering.

Question 39

An iron triangle is a relationship among

A) the president, Congress, and the Supreme Court.
B) the president, the Justice Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
C) a congressional subcommittee, an interest group, and a federal agency.
D) an interest group, a federal agency, and the White House staff.
E) the citizens, their senators and their representatives.

Question 40

Independent regulatory commissions regulate sectors of the nation's economy in the

A) interest of special groups.
B) interest of large-scale industries.
C) hope of helping special government agencies.
D) public interest.
E) interest of the President of the United States.

Question 41

Which of the following governs the way a federal agency makes rules, publicizes its operations, and settles disputes?

A) the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946
B) the Government Reorganization Act of 1999
C) the Taft-Hartley Act
D) the Sullivan Law
E) the Hatch Act.

Question 42

What type of president requires a clear agenda of policy goals?

A) only Democratic Presidents
B) only Republican Presidents
C) only second-term presidents
D) every president
E) presidents do not really need clear agendas of policy goals.

Question 43

What is the term used for the turning over of public responsibilities for regulation and for providing goods and services to privately owned and operated industries?

A) whistle-blowing
B) modernization
C) privatization
D) logrolling
E) welfare state

Question 44

Which of the following acts was responsible for the creation of the civil service system?

A) the Pendleton Act
B) the Hatch Act
C) the Privacy Act
D) the Sunshine Act
E) the McCain Act

Question 45

Which of the following often participate in issue networks?

A) bureaucrats
B) congressional staffers
C) interest groups
D) think tanks
E) all of the above

Question 46

The excessive number of rules and regulations that government employees must follow are referred to as

A) the spoils system.
B) red tape.
C) presidential control.
D) the power of persuasion.
E) the accountability system.

Question 47

It is difficult to imagine a world without bureaucracy.

Question 48

Specialization refers to the delegation of specific tasks to individuals whose training and experience give them the expertise to complete the tasks.

Question 49

Hierarchy is defined as the clear chain of communication and command running from an executive director at the top down through all levels of workers.

Question 50

A system of formal rules refers to clearly defined procedures for executing assigned tasks.

Question 51

The term bureaucracy is rooted in an eighteenth-century French word.

Question 52

A bureaucracy is a large and complex organizational system in which tasks, roles, and responsibilities are structured to achieve a goal.

Question 53

Max Weber modeled his "ideal type" of bureaucratic organization on the French government of the early nineteenth century.

Question 54

The principle of specialization means that specific tasks should be delegated to individuals who are related by blood to their immediate superiors.

Question 55

Public commitment to activist government paved the way for the astonishing growth of the federal bureaucracy in the twentieth century.

Question 56

The New Deal programs instituted by President Roosevelt in the 1930s became the core of the modern welfare state.

Question 57

The Hatch Act consisted of a series of legislative acts, executive orders, and proclamations creating large-scale federal programs that sought to provide retirement insurance, health care, economic security, and poverty relief for Americans.

Question 58

The spoils system was initiated by President Garfield.

Question 59

Today, merit-based hiring and advancement of federal employees have eliminated much of the corruption and cronyism of the old patronage system.

Question 60

The civil service system replaced the spoils system.

Question 61

The Whistleblower Protection Act, which protects federal whistleblowers or persons who work for the government who report agency misconduct, was passed in 1978.

Question 62

Congress passed the Civil Service Reform Act in 1989.

Question 63

The civil service system encourages the hiring of people with high levels of skill and expertise and provides procedures for evaluating the qualifications and job performance of federal workers.

Question 64

The civil service system was replaced by the Pendleton Act in 1939.

Question 65

The Hatch Act of 1942 replaced the Pendleton Act of 1939.

Question 66

A federal employee who is also the treasurer of a local political club is violating the Hatch Act.

Question 67

Federal employees may not sign petitions for partisan candidates.

Question 68

The Hatch Act is a list of political dos and don'ts for federal employees, designed to prevent federal civil servants from using their power or position to engage in political activities to influence elections, thereby creating a nonpartisan, nonpolitical, professionalized bureaucracy.

Question 69

The three key functions performed by the federal bureaucracy are implementation, administration, and adjudication.

Question 70

Implementation refers to the latitude that an agency, or even a single bureaucrat, has in interpreting and applying a law.

Question 71

Administration means to perform routine tasks associated with a specific policy objective.

Question 72

Administrative discretion refers to the degree of latitude given to bureaucrats in interpreting and applying a law.

Question 73

Implementation means removing an incompetent administrator from her position.

Question 74

Regulation refers to the making, enforcement, and adjudication of military orders.

Question 75

Cabinet departments are the major administrative organs which conduct numerous governmental operations.

Question 76

Independent agencies usually are smaller than cabinet departments.

Question 77

Congress cannot establish an independent agency so that it can keep particularly tight control over that agency's functions.

Question 78

The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Reserve Board are examples of independent regulatory agencies.

Question 79

Bureaucratic agencies do not control their own goals.

Question 80

Decisions about how to deliver goods and services must be made according to rules established by the bureaucracies