exam 3 review

Question 1

What is the Bureaucracy?

Answer 1

Executive branch departments, agencies, boards, and commissions that carry out the responsibilities of the federal government.

Question 2

Define regularlations?

Answer 2

regulations are guidelines issued by federal agencies for administering federal programs and implementing federal law.

Question 3

define cabinet

Answer 3

a set of executive departments responsible for carrying out federal policy in specific issue areas.

Question 4

what are cabinet secretaries?

Answer 4

Heads of cabinet departments and chief advisers to the president on the issues under their jurisdiction.

Question 5

cabinet level agency

Answer 5

executive department

Question 6

define Federal register

Answer 6

the official published record of all executive branch rules, regulations, and orders

Question 7

what is the office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Answer 7

Federal agency that oversees the federal budget and all federal regulations.

Question 8

define independent agency

Answer 8

a federal organization that has independent authority and does not operate within a cabinet department

Question 9

define federal regulatory commission

Answer 9

a federal agency typically run by a small number of officials, known as commissioners, who are appointed by the president for fixed terms and oversee economic or political issues.

Question 10

Pendleton Act - 1883

Answer 10

An act that established a merit- and performance-based system for federal employment.

Question 11

Civil Service Commission

Answer 11

Created by the Pendleton Act to administer entrance exams for the federal civil service and set standards for promotion based on merit.

Question 12

merit system

Answer 12

System of employment under which employees are chosen and promoted based on merit.

Question 13

civil service

Answer 13

The nonpartisan federal workforce employed to carry out government programs and policies.

Question 14

political appointees

Answer 14

Federal employees appointed by the president with the explicit task of carrying out his political and partisan agenda.

Question 15

whistleblowers

Answer 15

snitches Employees who report mismanagement, corruption, or illegal activity within their agencies.

Question 16

What Are Interest Groups?

Answer 16

Groups of citizens who share a common interest—a political opinion, religious or ideological belief, a social goal, or an economic characteristic— and try to influence public policy to benefit themselves

Question 17

right of association

Answer 17

Right to freely associate with others and form groups, as protected by the First Amendment.

Question 18

define faction

Answer 18

Defined by Madison as any group that places its own interests above the aggregate interests of society

Question 19

right of petition

Answer 19

Right to ask the government for assistance with a problem or to express opposition to a government policy, as protected by the First Amendment.

Question 20

define lobbying

Answer 20

Act of trying to persuade elected officials to adopt a specific policy change or maintain the status quo.

Question 21

define unions

Answer 21

employment and seek better wages and working conditions through collective bargaining with employers

Question 22

what is the grassroots movement

Answer 22

Group that forms in response to an economic or political event but does not focus on only one issue.

Question 23

economic interest group

Answer 23

Group formed to advance the economic status of its members

Question 24

ideological interest groups

Answer 24

Groups that form among citizens with the same beliefs about a specific issue.

Question 25

citizens’ groups

Answer 25

Groups that form to draw attention to purely public issues that affect all citizens equally.

Question 26

single-issue groups

Answer 26

Groups that form to present one view on a highly salient issue that is intensely important to members, such as gun control or abortion

Question 27

Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs):

Answer 27

Organizations independent of governments that monitor and improve political, economic, and social conditions throughout the world.

Question 28

inside strategy

Answer 28

A strategy employed by interest groups to pursue a narrow policy change and influence legislators directly rather than using a wider grassroots approach.

Question 29

political action committees (PACs)

Answer 29

Groups formed to raise and contribute funds to support electoral candidates and that are subject to campaign finance laws.

Question 30

pluralist

Answer 30

View of democratic society in which interest groups compete over policy goals, and elected officials are mediators of group conflict.

Question 31

special interests

Answer 31

Set of groups seeking a particular benefit for themselves in the policy process.

Question 32

issue network

Answer 32

View of the relationship among interest groups, members of Congress, and federal agencies as more fluid, open, and transparent than that described by the term iron triangle

Question 33

revolving door

Answer 33

Movement of members of Congress, lobbyists, and executive branch employees into paid positions in each other’s organizations.

Question 34

One – Monarchy Tyranny

Few – Aristocracy Oligarchy

Many – Polis Democracy (mob rule)

Answer 34

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