Unit 2: Chapter 7

Question 1

What is the swapping of political support for a government job?

Answer 1

Patronage

Question 2

What is merit ?

Answer 2

The ability to do a job

Question 3

What President was assassinated supposedly for his support of patronage ?

Answer 3

James A. Garfield

Question 4

Who took over after Garfield and passed the Pendleton Act of 1833?

Answer 4

Chester Arthur

Question 5

What act created the Civil Service Commission ?

Answer 5

The Pendleton Act of 1833

Question 6

What is the New Deal?

Answer 6

A collection of legislative proposals aimed at providing socialist beliefs such as government-financed pensions and health care

Question 7

What are the three parts of the federal bureaucracy and how they are defined ?

Answer 7

1. Departments - closest to the President
2. Independent Agencies - perform a single function or regulate some aspect of society
3. Government Corporations - the businesses of the federal government

Question 8

What are the main units of the departments ?

Answer 8

Bureaus

Question 9

The heads of the Executive departments form what ?

Answer 9

The Cabinet

Question 10

What are Department heads called ?

Answer 10

Secretaries

Question 11

What Department does the attorney general preside over ?

Answer 11

The Department of Justice

Question 12

What are most of the employees within the Executive departments called ?

Answer 12

Career civil servants

Question 13

What is another name for an independent agency?

Answer 13

An agency

Question 14

What are independent executive agencies ? Give two examples.

Answer 14

Agencies that tend to have a single function and report directly to the President.

1. General Services Administration
2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 15

What are Independent Regulatory Agencies ? Give two examples.

Answer 15

Agencies that have been created by Congress to regulate some area of American life.

1. Interstate Commerce Commission
2. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Question 16

What are some agencies that have been created within the Executive department ?

Answer 16

1. International Revenue Service

2. Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Question 17

What are statutory laws ?

Answer 17

Laws created by legislatures

Question 18

What are slip laws ?

Answer 18

The first legal statutory publications

Question 19

In what publication are the lip laws bound ?

Answer 19

U. S. Statues at Large

Question 20

What is the process of rule-making called ?

Answer 20

Regulation

Question 21

Where are proposed rules published ?

Answer 21

The Federal Register

Question 22

Where are the regulations organized by title ?

Answer 22

The Code of Federal Regulations

Question 23

What is a government corporation ?

Answer 23

A public company that operates a quasi-business enterprise

A.K.A. Corporations or Authorities

Question 24

What was the first government corporation ?

Answer 24

The Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 25

What are two other Government Corporations ?

Answer 25

1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | 2. United States Postal Service

Question 26

Who are a special group of judges who preside over informal, little-publicized cases arising out of agency decisions ? What are they sometimes referred to as ?

Answer 26

Administrative-law Judges "Hidden Judiciary"

Question 27

What is one area of American life that is seriously threatened ?

Answer 27

The Free Enterprise System

Question 28

What is an agency that has been especially burdensome to businesses ?

Answer 28

The Environmental Protection Agency

Question 29

What is deficit spending ?

Answer 29

Spending more than one receives

Question 30

What are three ways Congress could begin to reform the bureaucracy ?

Answer 30

1. Reorganization 2. Reduction 3. Reform

Question 31

What are the best known reorganizational commissions referred to as ?

Answer 31

The Hoover Commissions

Question 32

What Commission did President Reagan authorize to investigate how the bureaucracy might be reformed ?

Answer 32

The Grace Commission

Question 33

What is deregulation ?

Answer 33

The process of reducing the number of regulations

Question 34

What is discretionary authority ?

Answer 34

The authority Congress gives the agencies to make decisions regarding the public in areas that Congress has not specifically addressed.

Question 35

What is the process of returning decision-making to the state and local governments ?

Answer 35

The Revival of Federalism

Question 36

What is a bureaucracy ?

Answer 36

A large, complex organization made up of appointed officials