The Federal Bureaucracy: Part 1

________ is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone.

• A) Patronage

• B) The federal Civil Service

• C) The Bureaucracy

• D) The Golden Gate

• E) Administrative Discretion

The use of governmental authority to control or change a practice in the private sector

• A) Regulation

• B) Direct Control

• C) Securities and Exchange Commission

• D) Program Design

• E) Administrative Discretion

The authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem.

• A) Street-level Bureaucrats

• B) Merit Principle

• C) Fragmentation

• D) Administrative Discretion

• E) Regulation

The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill

• A) Patronage

• B) Merit Principle

• C) Spoils System

• D) Fragmentation

• E) Standing Operating Procedures

A government official in charge of a department

• A) President

• B) Advisor

• C) Attorney General

• D) Private Sector Producer

• E) Secretary

Companies that are owned by the government but operate with the same independence of a private business.

• A) Independent Agencies

• B) Government Corporations

• C) Cabinet Department

• D) Independent Regulatory Commissions

• E) Interest Group

Procedures for everyday decision making

• A) Administrative Routine

• B) Program Design

• C) Lack of Clarity

• D) Standing Operating Procedures

• E) Administrative Discretion

Refers to bureaucrats who are in contact with the public

• A) Interest Groups

• B) Independent Agencies

• C) Street-level Bureaucrats

• D) Government Corporations

• E) Cabinet Members

A successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

• A) Merit Principle

• B) Patronage

• C) Pendleton Act

• D) Spoils System

• E) Independent Agencies

Act that determined how federal employees are hired today by reducing patronage and replacing it with the merit system?

• A) Health Insurance BIll

• B) Patronage Act

• C) Pendleton Civil Service Act

• D) Personnel and Management Act

• E) Federal Service Act