Chapter 15 Terms

Question 1

Act in which regulations for hiring federal employees are set down; abolished the spoils system

Answer 1

Pendleton Act

Question 2

Civil servant dedicated to the details of administrative procedures

Answer 2

Bureaucrat

Question 3

President’s policy making group over security and intelligence matters

Answer 3

National Security System

Question 4

Act that limited the political activities of government employees

Answer 4

Hatch Act

Question 5

Method used today to fill most government jobs

Answer 5

Merit system

Question 6

Allowed citizens access to formerly closed door meetings by requiring federal agencies to hold well-announced public hearings

Answer 6

Sunshine Act

Question 7

Administrative system in which agencies staffed largely by nonelected officials perform specific tasks in accordance with standard procedures

Answer 7

Bureaucracy

Question 8

Person whose job it is to channel information, represent constituents, aid in administration, and communication planning, and service as the official spokesperson for the president

Answer 8

Press secretary

Question 9

Last cabinet level position created

Answer 9

Department of Homeland Security

Question 10

Civilian branch of the bureaucracy that carries out the administration tasks of government

Answer 10

Civil Service Commission

Question 11

Offices of the Executive branch developed to assist the president in his constitutional duties

Answer 11

Cabinet

Question 12

The act of committing or entrusting a task or power to another

Answer 12

Delegation

Question 13

Language of bureaucratic regulations, documents, and forms; wordy jargon

Answer 13

Bureaucratese

Question 14

Federal bureaucracy

Answer 14

Forth branch

Question 15

Bureaucratic paperwork

Answer 15

Red tape

Question 16

Grants of money allocated by Congress to finance government programs

Answer 16

Appropriations

Question 17

Members of groups whose needs are served by government agencies

Answer 17

Clients

Question 18

Process of examining a government department’s compliance with the law and scrutinizing its budget

Answer 18

Oversight

Question 19

Bureaucratic mismanagement of money and time

Answer 19

Waste

Question 20

Regulations drawn up by government bureaucracy that have the force of law

Answer 20

Administrative law

Question 21

Advises the president on the issues of politics, policy, and management; selects key people on White House staff

Answer 21

Chief of staff

Question 22

Bureaucracies operate according to clearly defined procedures; they have been on the positive and negative side

Answer 22

Standard operating procedures

Question 23

Laws passed by the legislature; however such laws are often written in vague terms out of either a lack of information or fear of offending constituents

Answer 23

Statutory law