Quiz #3

Question 1

What are negative aspects of bureaucracies?

Answer 1

Agencies seek to:
- protect their own interest
- seeks to maximize their budget and main power to the greatest extent possible
- groupthink
- policy fragmentation
- indecisiveness (not efficient)
- slow adaptation
- decisions subject to slippage (not the same as it began)

Question 2

What is the purpose of the Bureaucracy?

Answer 2

Help organization run smoothly, Divison of labor with clearly defined roles

Question 3

What is the structure of the Bureaucracy?

Answer 3

Secretary of State –> Deputy Secretary of State –> undersecretaries of state –> Assistant Secretary of State and assistant deputy Secretary of State

Question 4

What are the four phases of Bureaucratic development?

Answer 4

• 1: New Deal legislation of the 1930s under President Franklin Roosevelt
• 2: National Security and foreign affairs during World War 2 and the Cold War under President Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower
• 3: President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs of the 1960s
• 4:After September 11, 201 with President George W. Bush’s global war on terrorism and President Obama’s response to the global economic recession

Question 5

What are the key roles and positions of leadership?

Answer 5

 Secretary of state
* Chief officer responsible for governing and managing the state department for the president
 Deputy secretary of state
* Runs the state department when the secretary is absent (foreign trip)
 Undersecretaries of state
* Responsible for supervising one of the following broad areas
o Political affairs
o Economic, business, agricultural affairs
o Arms control
o International security affairs
o Democracy and global affairs(human rights and health issues)
o Public diplomacy and public affairs
o Management (budget and personnel)
 Assistant secretaries of state and Deputy assistant secretaries of state
* Bureau principals
* Fourth and fifth hierarchical levels in the state department

Question 6

What are patterns of influence in terms of FP outcomes?

Answer 6

• Response to problems that arise
• Foreign expansion

Question 7

What are the main functions of the Bureaucracy?

Answer 7

• Permanent, well-education, conscientious, non-partisan
• A socialized, complex, division of labor
• Hierarchical
• For rational and efficient pursuit of social goals in modern society