GOVT 2305 - Exam 3 Study Guide

The Securities and Exchanges Commission recently fined Kim Kardashian over $1 million for touting a crypto currency on Instagram. This action by the SEC is best described as

• rule making.

• implementing laws.

• enforcing laws.

• innovation.

Congress frequently delegates legal implementation to the bureaucracy because

• the president has much more power than Congress.

• the Supreme Court has mandated it to do so in McCulloch v. Maryland.

• state governments are unreliable agents to implement policy.

• bureaucracies employ people who have more specialized policy expertise than many members of Congress.

Congress passed a law that repealed the individual mandate for people to have health insurance. In response, the Department of Health and Human Services implemented a rule that mandated that people have individual health insurance. This problem is an example of the

• policy windows problem.

• principal-agent problem.

• federalism problem.

• state government problem.

The Tennessee Valley Authority sells power to residents of the Tennessee Valley area at a profit to support its operations. This is an example of a(n)

• Cabinet-level agency.

• independent regulatory commission.

• independent agency.

• government corporation.

The complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and principles that organize all large-scale institutions to coordinate the work of their personnel is

• bureaucracy.

• federalism.

• regulation.

• efficiency.

________ is responsible for making the laws, but ________ is responsible for putting laws into effect.

• Congress; the bureaucracy

• The President; Congress

• The Supreme Court; Congress

• Congress; the Supreme Court

The efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic rules and actions is called

• implementation.

• oversight.

• whistleblowing.

• appointment.

Which of the following would be an example of how federal bureaucrats make rules while engaging in implementation?

• the Supreme Court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency has no authority to regulate auto emissions under the Clean Air Act

• the Environmental Protection Agency requiring that, under the Clean Air Act, the average fuel economy for new vehicles must be at least 35.5 miles per gallon

• the Chamber of Commerce filing a lawsuit claiming that Congress has no authority to pass the Clean Air Act

• the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works filing a report on the efficacy of the Clean Air Act

Of the following, which is the most important factor in bureaucracies’ ability to implement laws effectively?

• adjudication

• environmental impact statements

• presidential action

• administrative capacity

Proposed rules to implement a law are

• open to comment by anyone who wishes to weigh in.

• open to comment only by members of Congress.

• open to comment only by other members of the federal bureaucracy.

• not open to comment by anyone.