Civics The Bureaucracy Review

The bureaucracy is accountable to the people of the United States because bureaucrats are elected every two years.

• True
• False

Privatization is a solution to perceived and real inefficiencies in the bureaucracy.

• True
• False

The "spoils system" became know as the "general system" due to patronage.

• True
• False

The Civil Service Reform Act (1883) established the Civil Service Commission, a centralized agency charged with hiring civil servants through a merit system?

• True
• False

Hiring practices and pay systems create an environment in which those most likely to succeed are in fact those who are ultimately appointed within the federal bureaucracy.

• True
• False

What is an administrative group of non-elected officials charged with carrying out functions connected to a series of policies and programs?

• Bureaucracy
• Executive Leader
• Congressional Act
• Administrative Committee

Which is not a reason why the bureaucracy is called the fourth branch?

• Programming
• Size
• Power
• Interaction with other branches

The “spoils system” allocated political appointments on the basis of ________.

• Party Loyalty
• Merit
• Background
• Specialization

Which initially caused a rapid growth of the bureaucracy?

• Rise of centralized party politics in the 1820s
• Civil Service reform in the 1880's
• Industrialization in the late-19th Century
• No correct option is given

The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 created the Office of Personnel Management and the ________.

• Merit Systems Protection Board
• Civil Service Commission
• Industrialization in the late-19th Century
• General Schedule