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Question 2

What is the Merit principle?

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Merit- based hiring and promotion; no granting of jobs to friends or family unless they are best qualified.

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What is the Spoils system?

Answer 3

In 1829 Andrew Jackson employed a spoils system to reward party loyalists with key federal posts.

Question 4

What did the Pendleton Act do?

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The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams,[1] rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation

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What is Civil Service Commission?

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Federal service was placed under the civil service commission, which supervised a testing program to evaluate candidates

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What is GS Rating?

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GS 1 to GS 18, which determines salaries.

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What is Devolution?

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This does not remove the service or program but sends it to the states to implement, resulting in uneven services from state to state.

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What is Privatization?

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The program is not removed but is provided by a private contractor usually through a competitive bidding system.

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What is oversight?

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Congress have this power, and must hold hearings to investigate complaints or suggested reforms to be sure that bureaucracies are adequately fulfilling the intent of the laws they were created to carry out.

Question 10

What did the Intelligence reform and Terrorism Prevention Act do?

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called the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s intelligence gathering apparatus in a half-century.

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What are government corporations?

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They are a blend of private corporation ans government agency.

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What is the iron triangle?

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Alliances among bureaucrats, interest groups, and congressional subcommittee members and staff sometimes form to promote their common caucus.

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What did the Hatch Act require?

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It required employees, once they were hired, to have little to do with political parties as possible.

Question 14

what is “red tape”?

Answer 14

the maze of government rules, regulations, and paperwork- makes government so overwhelming to citizens that many people try to avoid any contact.

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What is duplication?

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a situation in which two agencies appear to be doing the same thing.

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What is Authorization?

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No agency may spend money unless it has first been authorized by the maximum amount of money that an agency may spend on a given program.

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What is an appropriation?

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it is a money formally set aside for specific use, and it usually is less than the amount authorized.

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What is patronage?

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the control of or power to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.

Question 19

What is issue network?

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consist of people in interest groups, on congressional staffs, in universities, and in the mass media who regularly debate an issue.

Question 20

what is bureaucracy?

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the body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department.

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what is accountability?

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the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.

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Who is Max Weber?

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was one of the first people in modern times to think seriously about the importance of bureaucracy?

Question 23

what is Munn v. Ohio?

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

Question 24

What are independent regulatory agencies?

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government agency responsible for some sector of the economy, making and enforcing rules supposedly to protect the public interest. Judges disputes over these rules

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What are independent executive agencies?

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the government not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory agencies and government corporations. Its administrators are typically appointed by the president and serve at the president’s pleasure

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What is discretionary authority?

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the power to make a decision where the choice of whether to make a decision is that of the decision maker