8. T/F Flashcards
Bureaucracies touch nearly every aspect of daily life.
True
Politicians delegate little power to bureaucrats.
False
The creation of the Department of Homeland Security was the most dramatic reform of the federal bureaucracy since the establishment of the Department of Defense.
True
By definition, only governments have bureaucracies.
False
Bureaucracies take advantage of the division of labor to perform their tasks with greater efficiency.
True
Bureaucracy helps solve the problem of credibly committing to the long-term existence of a policy.
True
Due to the power of public unions, far more constraints are imposed on private employees than public bureaucrats.
False
In contrast to their counterparts in private industry, public bureaucrats are required to maintain a far more thorough paper trail.
True
Bureaucracies can make rules that have the full force of law, just like laws passed by Congress.
True
Bureaucrats typically leave the task of settling disputes to the courts or to Congress.
False
Congress often deliberately delegates the responsibility of lawmaking to an administrative agency.
True
The bureau level of an executive agency is higher in the federal hierarchy than a cabinet department.
False
All government agencies are part of cabinet departments.
False
The first independent regulatory commission was the Interstate Commerce Commission.
True
Clientele agencies are designed to serve the broad interests of the country.
False
The agencies that collect taxes and handle money for the U.S. government are called pecuniary agencies.
False
The Department of Justice is an agency for internal security.
True
The Department of State is an agency for internal security.
False
Policies focused on banks, credit, and currency are called fiscal policies.
False
The single government agency responsible for all the programs making up the welfare state is the Department of Human Services.
False
In August 1996, virtually all of the means-tested public assistance programs were abolished as a national program and were devolved to the states.
True
As a share of the population, the federal workforce has grown significantly over the last 50 years.
False
Congress can punish agency drift by reducing the budgets of wayward bureaucrats.
True
Legislators have strong incentives to oppose connections between agencies, interest groups, and committees known as cozy little triangles.
False
The most powerful before-the-fact political weapon is the appointment power.
True
