Ch 7 - Executive Bureacracy

Question 0

Merit

Answer 0

The ability to do the job

Question 1

Patronage

Answer 1

Swapping of political support for a government job

Question 2

New deal

Answer 2

A collection of legislative proposals aimed at providing socialist benefits

Question 3

Departments

Answer 3

The organizations closest to the president and most subject to his direct control

Question 4

Government corporations

Answer 4

Public company that operates a quasi-business enterprise

Question 5

Cabinet

Answer 5

15 heads of executive departments

Question 6

Career civil servants

Answer 6

Employee within the executive departments who are hired, not appointed

Question 7

Independent executive agencies

Answer 7

Agencies that tend to have a single function and report directly to the president

Question 8

Independent regulatory agencies

Answer 8

Agencies created by congress to regulate some aspect of American life

Question 9

Statutory laws

Answer 9

Laws created by legislatures

Question 10

Slip laws

Answer 10

First publication of statutory laws

Question 11

US statutes at large

Answer 11

Bound publication of all slip laws from one congressional session

Question 12

Federal register

Answer 12

Publication of proposed rules that gives those affected by regulation to read both regulations be proposed and implemented

Question 13

Code of federal regulations

Answer 13

Yearly publication that lists all regulations issued that year and other still in effect

Question 14

Administrative law judges

Answer 14

A special group of judged who preside over cases arising out of agency decisions

Question 15

Deficit spending

Answer 15

When the government spends more than it receives in revenue