GOVT 220 Quiz The Bureaucracy

GOVT 220 Quiz The Bureaucracy

1. What is the key group of a president’s advisers, who are responsible for the areas under their jurisdiction, known as?
2. What was the purpose of the Pendleton Act of 1883?
3. What is the basis for hiring decisions made under the civil service system?
4. Which of the following statements about the civil service is accurate?
5. Fundamental to the core of the federal bureaucracy is the presumption that the people who hold bureaucratic positions have which of the following?
6. Why does conflict among agencies exist?
7. During the early years of the federal government, which of these was the only department to hold significant power?
8. By definition, a bureaucracy must have all but which of the following?
9. What do critics of government-by-proxy system argue is problematic about this system?
10. Many of the problems of bureaucracy in the government arise from what?
11. The discretionary authority of appointed officials is their authority to do which of the following?
12. The number of civilians working for the federal bureaucracy has not increased much since 1960. This observation fails to account for which of the following?
13. If members of Congress disagree with the operations of a particular department within the federal bureaucracy and want to force changes, what means do they have to exercise some control over that department?
14. Which of the following describes the representation of African Americans and other minorities in the federal civil service?
15. Which of these is the ability of a congressional committee to review and approve certain agency decisions in advance and without passing a law?
16. Which of the following best describes how the major cabinet departments of the federal government were created?
17. In response to the assassination of President Garfield, Congress passed which of the following acts that established a merit- and performance-based system for federal employment?
18. A federal employee who was appointed by the president with the explicit task of carrying out the president’s political and partisan agenda would be known as which of the following?
19. Which of the following was created in 1978 to give the president more flexibility in dealing with high-level bureaucrats?
20. During most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, appointments to the civil service were based primarily on what?
21. How has the growth of subcommittees in Congress affected the iron triangles of government?
22. Bureaucratic inefficiency may be desirable in that it might help to do what?
23. What is one major difference between the United States and other countries with respect to private industries?
24. If you want to see the information the federal government has about you or about certain other subjects, how can you make the government release that information to you?
25. The “buddy system” allows an agency to circumvent the usual Office of Personnel Management (OPM) search process by doing what?
26. In the First Congress, it was decided that appointed federal officials would be removable by whom?
27. Between 1816 and 1861, the number of federal employees increased eightfold, in large part because of which of the following?
28. Bureaucratic imperialism is the tendency of agencies to do what?
29. If it were necessary to create a new cabinet-level department today, which of the following has the authority to do that?
30. When an agency like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) makes an important decision, it is quite likely to be taken to court. This would be an example of which of the following?