8. T/F

Question 1

Bureaucracies touch nearly every aspect of daily life.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Politicians delegate little power to bureaucrats.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

By definition, only governments have bureaucracies.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Bureaucracies take advantage of the division of labor to perform their tasks with greater efficiency.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Bureaucracy helps solve the problem of credibly committing to the long-term existence of a policy.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Due to the power of public unions, far more constraints are imposed on private employees than public bureaucrats.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

In contrast to their counterparts in private industry, public bureaucrats are required to maintain a far more thorough paper trail.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Bureaucracies can make rules that have the full force of law, just like laws passed by Congress.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Bureaucrats typically leave the task of settling disputes to the courts or to Congress.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Congress often deliberately delegates the responsibility of lawmaking to an administrative agency.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

The bureau level of an executive agency is higher in the federal hierarchy than a cabinet department.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

All government agencies are part of cabinet departments.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

The first independent regulatory commission was the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Clientele agencies are designed to serve the broad interests of the country.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The agencies that collect taxes and handle money for the U.S. government are called pecuniary agencies.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

The Department of Justice is an agency for internal security.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The Department of State is an agency for internal security.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Policies focused on banks, credit, and currency are called fiscal policies.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

The single government agency responsible for all the programs making up the welfare state is the Department of Human Services.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

In August 1996, virtually all of the means-tested public assistance programs were abolished as a national program and were devolved to the states.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

As a share of the population, the federal workforce has grown significantly over the last 50 years.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Congress can punish agency drift by reducing the budgets of wayward bureaucrats.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Legislators have strong incentives to oppose connections between agencies, interest groups, and committees known as cozy little triangles.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The most powerful before-the-fact political weapon is the appointment power.

Answer 25

True