The Federal Bureaucracy

What act depoliticized the civil service by prohibiting department heads from compelling their workers to campaign for their reelection?

• The Civil Service Reform Act 1883

• Pendleton Act 1883

• Hatch Act 1939

• None of the above

What act ended the spoils systems and created the civil service?

• Pendleton Act 1883

• Civil Service Reform Act 1883

• The Hatch Act 1939

• A and B

What does the fourth branch of government refer to?

• The press

• The federal bureaucracy

• The electoral college

• The executive branch

How do bureaucrats divide their work?

• According to education and work experience

• By the line and staff

• By professionalism and meritocracy

• None of the above

Which bureaucracies are quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial institutions that monitor social and economic sectors for adherence to the rules and regulations governing these sectors and for fairness?

• Independent Regulatory Commissions

• Federal Departments

• Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal

• None of the above

What are not characteristics of independent regulatory commissions?

• Members have long and staggered terms of office

• Members cannot be removed by the president

• Commissions are roughly equally divided by partisan party and the commission head is from the majority party

• None of the above

Regulatory commissions are mandated to regulate which areas of society?

• Commercial and financial sectors

• Industrial and environmental sectors

• Political and Social sectors

• All the above

What “rule” of bureaucracy says bureaucrats are promoted until they reach the level of their incompetency?

• Parkinson’s Law

• Peter’s Principle

• Burke’s Law

• None of the above

What are the broad social purposes of bureaucracies?

• To implement public policy

• To grow as much as possible to offset and regulate capitalism

• To impose order and stability in society

• None of the above

How many Departments are in the federal government?

• 10

• 15

• 19

• 50