AP GOV CH.8 FLASHCARDS- EDDY RAMIREZ

Question 1

administrative adjudication

Answer 1

the process by which an administrative agency issues an affirmative, negative, injunctive, or declaratory order.

Administrative adjudications happen often around the world

Question 2

administrative discretion

Answer 2

In public administration, administrative discretion refers to the flexible exercising of judgment and decision making allowed to public administrators.

administrative discretions happen all the time in the US.

Question 3

Cabinet departments

Answer 3

A cabinet department or prime minister’s department is a department or other government agency that directly supports the work of the government’s central executive office, usually the cabinet and/or prime minister, rather than specific ministerial portfolios.

Cabinet departments supports the work of the govt. central executive office.

Question 4

civil service system

Answer 4

those branches of public service concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services. the body of persons employed in these branches. a system or method of appointing government employees on the basis of competitive examinations, rather than by political patronage.

The civil service system is important to the US govt.

Question 5

Department of Homeland Security

Answer 5

The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the U.S. federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries

The Department of Homeland Securitys responsibility is in public service.

Question 6

federal bureaucracy

Answer 6

The federal bureaucracy performs three primary tasks in government: implementation, administration, and regulation. When Congress passes a law, it sets down guidelines to carry out the new policies. Actually putting these policies into practice is known as implementation.

The federal bureaucracy has three primary tasks.

Question 7

Federal register

Answer 7

The Federal Register is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published daily, except on federal holidays.

The Federal register posted a new article today.

Question 8

govt. corporations

Answer 8

A government-owned corporation is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. Their legal status varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder.

govt. corporations are a part of the government to stock companies.

Question 9

G.I Bill

Answer 9

A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.

The G.I bill was passed during WW2.

Question 10

govt. corporations

Answer 10

A government-owned corporation is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. Their legal status varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder.

govt. corporations undertook comercial activities.

Question 11

Great depression

Answer 11

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s.

Great depression was a bad time for the U.S.

Question 12

Great society

Answer 12

a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

President Johnson was in office during the Great society.

Question 13

Hatch act

Answer 13

The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials

The act that was passed in 1939 was the Hatch act.

Question 14

implementation

Answer 14

the process of putting a decision or plan into effect; execution.

she was responsible for the implementation of the plan

Question 15

independent executive agencies

Answer 15

Independent agencies of the United States federal government are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. … These agency rules (or regulations), when in force, have the power of federal law.

The CIA is part of the independent executive agencies .

Question 16

independent regulatory commission

Answer 16

Regulatory agency, independent governmental commission established by legislative act in order to set standards in a specific field of activity, or operations, in the private sector of the economy and to then enforce those standards. Regulatory agencies function outside executive supervision.

independent regulatory commissions are important towards US govt.

Question 17

interagency councils

Answer 17

working groups created to facilitate coordination of policy-making and implementation across a host of governmental agencies.

interagency councils are working groups.

Question 18

iron triangles

Answer 18

The iron triangle is a unique relationship between bureaucracy, congressmen, and lobbyists that results in the mutual benefit of all three of them. We examine how an iron triangle works and then consider some problems that might arise from an iron triangle.

The unique relationship between bureaucracy, congressmen, and lobbyists is through iron triangles.

Question 19

issue networks

Answer 19

Issue networks are an alliance of various interest groups and individuals who unite in order to promote a common cause or agenda in a way that influences government policy. Issue networks can be either domestic or international in scope depending on their collective goal.

issue networks dont get along with various interest groups.

Question 20

Max weber

Answer 20

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist. His ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology.

Question 21

merit system

Answer 21

The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections. It is the opposite of the spoils system.

Question 22

patronage

Answer 22

the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges.
recruits are selected on merit, not through political patronage

Question 23

Pendleton Act

Answer 23

a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
it was enacted by the 47th us congress

Question 24

PCCs

Answer 24

Subcabinet-level committees created to facilitate interactions between agencies and departments to handle complex policy problems. administrative discretion. The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions.

Question 25

regulations

Answer 25

Regulations are rules made by a government or other authority in order to control the way something is done or the way people behave. The European Union has proposed new regulations to control the hours worked by its employees.

Question 26

rule making

Answer 26

In administrative law, rule-making is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations. In general, legislatures first set broad policy mandates by passing statutes, then agencies create more detailed regulations through rulemaking.

Question 27

Sixteenth amendment

Answer 27

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Question 28

spoils system

Answer 28

the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

Question 29

WW1

Answer 29

World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918

Question 30

WW2

Answer 30

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world’s countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.