AP Gov - The Bureaucracy

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an advantage that bureaucrats have over the president in the policymaking process is that bureaucrats

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usually have a continuity of service in the executive branch that the president lacks

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independent regulatory commissions are created primarily for the purpose of

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regulating certain industries to protect the public interest

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Congress has exerted the greatest influence on the operation of a federal agency by doing which of the following: requiring the agency to participate in interagency task forces, dismissing an agency head who disagrees with congressional priorities, reviewing the annual budget appropriations for the agency, asking the Supreme Court for advisory opinions on agency regulations?

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reviewing the annual budget appropriations for the agency

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which of the following is true of independent regulatory agencies: they tend to have larger budgets than cabinet departments, they are directly supervised by cabinet departments, they provide a product or service directly to the public, they tend to be free from presidential control than are cabinet departments

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they tend to be free from presidential control than are cabinet departments

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one of the formal tools used by congress for oversight of the bureaucracy is

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authorization of spending

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each bureaucratic agency is created initially by

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congress

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NASA is an example of

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an independent agency

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the three points of an iron triangle include

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administrative agency, interest group, congressional committee

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which of the following best describes the term "iron triangle"

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close relationship between an agency, congressional committee, and interest group that often becomes an alliance

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A member of the president's cabinet is said to have "gone native" when the cabinet member

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places his or her department's priorities above the president's