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Question 1

Issue networks

Answer 1

The loose and informal relationships that exist among the large number of actors who work in a broad policy areas.
Sentence: The issue network is a good network.

Question 2

Interagency councils

Answer 2

working groups created to facilitate coordination of policy making and implementation across a host of governmental agencies
Sentence: They help facilitate coordinates of policy which helps the government.

Question 3

Policy Coordination committees-

Answer 3

committees created at the sun-cabinet level to facilitate interactions between agencies and departments to handle complex policy problems
Sentence: The policy coordination helps complex policy problems.

Question 4

Administrative Discretion

Answer 4

the ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions
Sentence: The congressional or executive intentions.

Question 5

Rule making

Answer 5

A quasi-legislative process resulting in regulations that have characteristics of a legislative act.
Sentence: Rule making is difficult because you have to make it appeal to the majority.

Question 6

Regulations

Answer 6

rules governing the operation of all government programs to have the force of law.
Sentence: Regulations reduce the governments power.

Question 7

Federal register

Answer 7

The official journal of the US government, including all federal rules and all public notices for the citizens of organizations can follow proposed changes and comply with rule changes.
Sentence: The federal register helps the public see the rule changes.

Question 8

Administrative adjudication

Answer 8

A quasi judicial process in which a bureaucratic agencies settle disputes between two parties similar to the way courts resolve disputes.
Sentence: There are two parties that are involved.

Question 9

Federal bureaucracy

Answer 9

the thousands of federal government agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs.
Sentence: The federal bureaucracy is a program that helps out many.

Question 10

Max Weber

Answer 10

German sociologist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who articulated the hierarchical structure and near-mechanical functioning of bureaucracies in complex societies.
Sentence: This is a twentieth centuries that articulated the hierarchical structure.

Question 11

Spoils system

Answer 11

the firing of public-office holders of a defeated political party to replace with loyalists of the newly elected party.
Sentence: The spoils system is a defeated political party.

Question 12

Patronage

Answer 12

Jobs, grant, or other special favors that are given as rewards to friends and political allies for their support.
Sentence: patronage is given money to other groups

Question 13

Merit system

Answer 13

a system of employment based on qualifications, test scores, and ability, rather than party loyalty.
Sentence: This system is based on qualifications and test.

Question 14

Pendleton Act

Answer 14

reform measure that established the principle of federal employment on the basis of open, competitive exams and created the Civil Service Commission.
Sentence: The pendleton is used for the civil service commission.

Question 15

Civil service system

Answer 15

The merit system by which many federal bureaucrats are selected
Sentence: This system helps bureaucrats be selected.

Question 16

Sixteenth Amendment

Answer 16

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that authorized Congress to enact a national income tax.
Sentence: This amendment was authorized to enact a national income tax.;

Question 17

World War I

Answer 17

Global military conflict that took place from 1914-1918 across Europe and its overseas territories. The United States military intervened from 1917-1918.
Sentence: This war ended with a lot of casualties.

Question 18

Great Depression

Answer 18

A severe global economic downturn marked by mass unemployment and poverty that began in the United States in 1929 and persisted to some degree until the end of the 1930s.
Sentence: There were many people left without homes.

Question 19

World War II

Answer 19

Global military conflict that took place from 1939-1945 in Europe, Africa, Asia, And the Pacific region. The United States was formally involved in the war from 1941-1945.
Sentence: Hitler and his army was destroyed.

Question 20

G.I. (Government Issue) Bill

Answer 20

Federal legislation enacted in 1914 that provide college loans for returning veterans and reduced mortgage rates to enable them to buy homes.
Sentence: A G.I bill usually is to positively influence the citizens.

Question 21

Great Society

Answer 21

Reform program began in 1964 by President Lyndon B Johnson that was a broad attempt to combat poverty and discrimination through urban renewal, education, reform, and unemployment relief.
Sentence: This was an attempt to combat poverty.

Question 22

Department of Homeland Security

Answer 22

Cabinet department after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to coordinate domestic security efforts.
Sentence: This is to prevent terrorism.

Question 23

Cabinet Departments

Answer 23

Major administrative units with responsibility for a broad area of government operations. Departmental status usually indicates a permanent national interest in a particular governmental function, such as defense, commerce, or agriculture.
Sentence: This department helps national interest.

Question 24

Independent Executive Agencies

Answer 24

Governmental units that closely resemble a Cabinet department but have narrower areas of responsibility, and perform services rather than regulatory functions.
Sentence: They have narrower areas of responsibility.

Question 25

independent regulatory

Answer 25

an entity created by Congress outside a major executive department that regulates a specified interest or economic activity.
Sentence: This is an entity created by congress.

Question 26

Government corporations

Answer 26

businesses established by congress to perform functions that private businesses could provide such as the US postal service and amtrak. Often established when the financial incentives for private industry to provide services are minimal.
Sentence: The establish when the financial incentives.

Question 27

Hatch Act

Answer 27

the 1939 act to prohibit civil servants from taking activist roles in partisan campaigns. This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions, working for a particular party, or campaigning for a particular candidate.
Sentence: This act prohibits federal employee from making political contribution.

Question 28

Implementation

Answer 28

the process by which a law or policy is put into operation

Sentence: This is how policies put into actions.

Question 29

Iron triangles

Answer 29

the relatively ironclad relationships and patterns of interaction that occur among agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees.
Sentence: There were relatively ironclad relationships.

Question 30

Department of Homeland Security

Answer 30

cabinet department created after the 9/11 attack terrorist attacks to coordinate domestic security efforts.
Sentence: This helps against terrorist attacks.