CH 8 Review

What legislation limited the role of the courts in the bureaucratic process?

• Affordable Care Act of 2010

• Government Sunshine Act of 1976

• Administrative Procedure Act of 1946

• Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989

Why do civil service employees usually stay in the same department for their entire career?

• The constitution prohibits people shuffling between departments to prevent corruption.

• The specialization required for the job makes switching departments unlikely.

• The constitution provides tenure, and they cannot be fired.

• If employees are reassigned to a new departments or agencies, they lose their initial rank.

What is the Federal Register?

• a publication containing all federal regulations

• a record of all eligible voters and their political party affiliation

• a list of civil service employees involved in corruption

• a tool that monitors the interest rates imposed on the consumer by regulatory agencies

Bureaucrats are also known as ______.

• civil servants

• government corporations

• members of Congress

• clientele groups

Which statement is true regarding the relationship between the Constitution and the federal bureaucracy?

• Article IV of the Constitution provides specific rules for the operation of the federal bureaucracy.

• The Constitution specifies five departments that may exist.

• The Bill of Rights created the bureaucracy.

• The Constitution is ambiguous in its references to the federal bureaucracy.

What are strategies federal agencies use to thrive and survive in the context of congressional and presidential review?

• avoiding the pitfalls of agency capture

• building groups of supporters from citizens

• serving the president’s agenda because their office has power over their destiny

• overlapping services between departments to avoid scandal

What is a common strategy for high-level bureaucrats caught between a president’s agenda and an organizations’ priorities?

• stalling

• resignation

• political scandal

• mass firing

Which reform corrected patronage and corruption within the federal bureaucracy?

• clientele groups

• Pendleton Act

• the Federal Register

• independent agencies

What is the purpose of neutral competence?

• to diversify the bureaucracy

• to depoliticize the bureaucracy

• subjectivity in decision making

• promotion based on patronage

Which piece of legislation allows citizens to obtain copies of most public records?

• Freedom of Information Act

• Pendleton Act

• Privacy Act

• Hatch Act