Unit 2- Bureaucracy

Question 1

Delegate Representation

Answer 1

Vote directly on what their constituents are asking for.

Question 2

Trustee Representation

Answer 2

Vote for what they think their constituents want.

Question 3

What is the role of a constituent?

Answer 3

They present to their representatives an issue they need to solve within the are the representative lives in.

Question 4

What is a bill?

Answer 4

A bill is a proposed law to the legislative branch.

Question 5

Roles of leadership in the House

Answer 5

To help the people of the united states, has more control over the legislative process

Question 6

Roles of leadership in the Senate

Answer 6

To help people of the state, has less power in congress due to size, but has more careful, thought out processing

Question 7

How many years in a term for House? Senate?

Answer 7

For house- 2 years
For senate- 6 years

Question 8

What are the advantages that incumbents have in elections?

Answer 8

1) They get to offer their constituents many individual services (casework)
2) Can send mail to their constituents free of charge
3) Have a higher chance of getting re-elected

Question 9

Substantive representation

Answer 9

Their own background and interests might differ from who they represent but they get to get further in the poles. They’re held to that constituency if they don’t represent properly.

Question 10

Descriptive representation

Answer 10

A representative that has the same background as the majority constituents. A black African American women representing a majority black woman group.

Question 11

What is pork barreling?

Answer 11

Things that representatives do for their constituents they dont have to do but might raise their chances in getting re-elected.

Question 12

What is a conference committee?

Answer 12

Composed of both members of the house and the senate. To help reconcile differences between the bill. Once the differences are talked about the bill is sent to the president for signing.

Question 13

How can congress override a veto?

Answer 13

2/3 votes from the senate and the house.
-67 from senate
-number over 225

Question 14

What is representation in the U.S HOR based on?

Answer 14

Based on the population of the state, larger states more rep, smaller states less rep.

Question 15

What factors are related to who gets elected?

Answer 15

1) Incumbency advantage
2) Campaigning
3) Connections with other politicians
4) Who runs for congress (parties have no control)
5) redistricting process

Question 16

What is redistricting?

Answer 16

Happens every year, redraws election districts to represent population shifts.

Question 17

Unorthodox lawmaking

Answer 17

) A set of legislative procedures that deviate from the regular order
1) To move bills along more quickly
2) It allows parties to push the president’s agenda
3) Also allows opposite parties to battle the other parties agenda
(More power from party leaders and less power from the members)

Question 18

What are the different roles the president plays?

Answer 18

1) Commander in chief
2) Chief executive
4) Chief of state

Question 19

Executive Order

Answer 19

Rule of regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation. Must state constitutional basis for their issue.

Question 20

Executive Privilege

Answer 20

The claim that confidential communications between a president and close advisors should not be revealed with consent of the president.

Question 21

What articles of the constitution made congress and executive branch

Answer 21

Article I- Congress
Article II- Executive Branch

Question 22

Who approves treaties and presidential appointments?

Answer 22

The senate

Question 23

Why does the president give the state of the union address?

Answer 23

An opportunity to set the legislative agenda (primary initiator), principal source for public awareness and national issues.

Question 24

What are the number of vetoes a president issues dependent on?

Answer 24

Depending on what the party is, opposite party would veto more

Question 25

What can a president use emergency power?

Answer 25

Suspending laws, during a period of national emergency

Question 26

What are the president’s expressed powers?

Answer 26

1) Military
2) Diplomatic
3) Legislative
4) Judicial
5) Executive

Question 27

Unitary executive theory

Answer 27

The president has all executive power within the government, except as explicitly limited by the constitution.

Question 28

What are the roles of the Vice President?

Answer 28

1) Take over the presidency if president dies or is incapacitated.

Question 29

What happens to the president’s approval rating as term goes on

Answer 29

The approval rating goes down, because they don’t live up to their expectations

Question 30

Inherent powers

Answer 30

Powers that are not directly stated in the constitution but is inferred from it. (rights, duties, obligations)

Question 31

The bureaucracy?

Answer 31

A complex structure of offices, tasks, rules and principles that has many institutions to help coordinate their work.

Question 32

What are whistleblowers?

Answer 32

They are people that report the wrongdoings of a public or private organizations as well as federal agencies.

Question 33

Who makes laws?

Answer 33

Congress (legislative branch)

Question 34

Who is responsible for putting laws into effect?

Answer 34

The president (executive branch)

Question 35

What is bureaucratic enforcement?

Answer 35

• They enforce the laws
• (Volkswagon emission)

Question 36

What is bureaucratic innovation?

Answer 36

• They help devise new ways of doing things
• (helped facilitate the internet)

Question 37

What are government corporations?

Answer 37

Are agencies that have a market oriented public service to help raise revenue to fund activities

Question 38

Pendleton Act

Answer 38

establish test that would establish who is qualified for federal jobs

Question 39

Spoils system

Answer 39

awarded jobs based on political connections

Question 40

Challenges of a bureaucracy

Answer 40

• Inflexibility
• regulatory capture: agency becomes more concerned with serving interest groups instead of regulating them

Question 41

bureaucratic implementation

Answer 41

translating laws into bureaucratic rules and actions

Question 42

Structure of bureaucracy

Answer 42

They foster equal treatment to citizens