Chapter 15

Question 1

Government by proxy

Answer 1

Washington pays state and local governments and private groups to staff and administer fed programs

Question 2

Laissez-faire

Answer 2

Economic theory that gov should not regulate or interfere w commerce

Question 3

Discretionary authority

Answer 3

Extent to which appointed bureaucrats can choose courses of action and make policies not spelled out in advance by laws

Question 4

Competitive service

Answer 4

Gov offices to which people are appointed on the basis of merit, as ascertained by a written exam or by applying certain selection criteria

Question 5

Name-request job

Answer 5

Job filled by a person whom an agency has already identified

Question 6

Iron triangle

Answer 6

Close relationship between an agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group

Question 7

Issue network

Answer 7

Network of people in Washington DC-based interest groups, on congressional staffs, in universities and think tanks, and in mass media, who regularly discuss and advocate public policies

Question 8

Authorization legislation

Answer 8

Legislative permission to begin or continue a gov program or agency

Question 9

Appropriation

Answer 9

Legislative grant of money to finance a gov program or agency

Question 10

Trust funds

Answer 10

Funds for gov programs collected and spent outside the regular gov budget

Question 11

Committee clearance

Answer 11

Ability of a congressional committee to review and approve certain agency decisions in advance and without passing a law

Question 12

Legislative veto

Answer 12

Authority of congress to block a pres action after it has taken place. The Supreme Court has held that congress does not have this power

Question 13

Red tape

Answer 13

Complex bureaucratic rules and procedures that must be followed to get something done

Question 14

Bureaucracy

Answer 14

Large, complex organization composed of appointed officials