chapter 5 vocab

Question 1

dual responsibility

Answer 1

bureaucracy’s duty to Congress and the president

Question 2

Max Weber

Answer 2

He created the classic conception of bureaucracy as a well-organized, complex machine that is a “rational” way for a modern for a modern society to organize its business

Question 3

Pendleton Act

Answer 3

set up a limited merit system for appointing federal offices

Question 4

civil service commission

Answer 4

supervise a testing program to evaluate political candidates

Question 5

merit principle

Answer 5

designed to ensure fair and open recruitment and competition and employment practices free of political influence or other non merit factors.

Question 6

schedule c position

Answer 6

those who are excepted from the competitive service because they have policy-determining responsibilities or are required to serve in a confidential relationship to a key official.

Question 7

GS rating

Answer 7

determines salaries of gov employees (1-18)

Question 8

privatization

Answer 8

the process by which a piece of property or business goes from being owned by the government to being privately owned

Question 9

oversight

Answer 9

the review of federal agencies, programs and policy implementation, it provides the legislative branch with an opportunity to check and examine the executive branch and its agencies.

Question 10

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act

Answer 10

ensure that the civil rights and civil liberties of persons are not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland

Question 11

discretionary authority

Answer 11

an agency’s ability to decide whether or not to take certain courses of action when implementing existing laws

Question 12

Munn v. Illinois, 1877

Answer 12

a case that upheld the rights of the state of Illinois to regulate the charges and services of a Chicago warehouse

Question 13

duplication

Answer 13

when two or more agencies or programs have same goals, activities, or provide the same services to the same beneficiaries

Question 14

executive order

Answer 14

a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.

Question 15

reorganization

Answer 15

It permits the president to divide, consolidate, abolish, or create agencies of the U.S. federal government by presidential directive, subject to limited legislative oversight

Question 16

Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 2008

Answer 16

The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA was responsible for issuing emissions standards for motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act because greenhouse gases are “air pollutant agents”.
This case verified that courts have a role in the bureaucratic process

Question 17

Iron triangles

Answer 17

alliances among bureaucrats, interest groups, and congressional subcommittee members and staff sometimes form to promote their common causes

Question 18

Hatch Act

Answer 18

required hired government employees to have as little to do with political parties as possible

Question 19

red tape

Answer 19

the maze of government rules, regulations, and paperwork (overwhelming)

Question 20

independent executive agencies

Answer 20

These agencies are not represented in the cabinet and are not part of the Executive Office of the president. They deal with government operations, the economy, and regulatory oversight

Question 21

independent regulatory agencies

Answer 21

Federal regulatory agencies that are independent, thus not fully under the power of the president.

Question 22

Public ownership

Answer 22

ownership by the government of an asset, corporation, or industry

Question 23

regulation ownership

Answer 23

Regulation is the controlling of an activity or process, usually by means of rules. So, this would be the involvement of the government’s mandates/rules in the market/economic/business industries.