Exam 13: The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the Government

A) inefficiency,inflexibility,and red tape.
B) hierarchy,specialization,and rules.
C) honesty,efficiency,and patronage.
D) corruption,incompetence,and spoils.
E) waste,red tape,and lack of rules.

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A) all agencies within cabinet departments.
B) all independent agencies.
C) respectively,an independent agency,an agency within a cabinet department,and a regulatory agency.
D) two cabinet departments and a regulatory agency.
E) respectively,an agency within a cabinet department,an independent agency,and a regulatory agency.

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A) Environmental Protection Agency
B) Department of Labor
C) Department of Transportation
D) Minerals Management Service
E) Executive Office of the President

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A) Health and Human Services
B) State
C) Labor
D) Homeland Security
E) Agriculture

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A) the Brownlow Commission
B) the National Performance Review
C) the Hoover Commission
D) the Volcker Commission
E) None of these answers is correct.

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A) 1887;800
B) 1911;800
C) 1933;1,300
D) 1961: 1,300
E) 1978;7,000

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A) 10 million
B) 2.5 million
C) 5 million
D) 700,000
E) 1 million

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A) the wishes of the president.
B) the wishes of Congress.
C) their own agency's point of view.
D) the expectations of the general public.
E) the wishes of federal judges.

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A) January 1.
B) March 1.
C) April 15.
D) July 1.
E) October 1.

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A) Blacks
B) Hispanics
C) women
D) white men
E) All of these groups had about the same percentage increase.

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A) natural sciences and engineering.
B) law.
C) social sciences and the humanities.
D) business management.
E) journalism.

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A) Because the federal government has reduced efforts to specifically promote women and minorities,the proportion of white males that hold top administration positions has increased in recent years.
B) If all employees are taken into account,the federal bureaucracy comes reasonably close to being representative of the nation's population.
C) Women and minorities are better represented in Congress and the judiciary than they are among the top ranks of administrators.
D) The concept of a demographically representative civil service was first endorsed by President Reagan in 1984.
E) There has been much more improvement in the representation of minorities in the civil service than in the representation of women.

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A) Social Security System.
B) Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
C) Department of Agriculture.
D) drug education program administered by Health and Human Services.
E) U.S.Postal Service.

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A) generalists;specialists
B) generalists;generalists
C) specialists;generalists
D) specialists;specialists
E) popular;unpopular

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A) extremely wasteful and unresponsive to the public it serves.
B) an ineffective institution in comparison with bureaucracies of democracies with unitary systems.
C) more responsive to the public at large than to the particular interests that depend on its various programs.
D) a mix of the patronage and merit systems.
E) mostly dominated by patronage politics.

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A) merit criteria.
B) patronage.
C) previous job experience in the private sector.
D) the personal preferences of immediate supervisors.
E) a lottery system.

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A first major source of bureaucratic pow...

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A) agencies work on their budgets
B) president consults with OMB on agency instructions
C) Congress completes work on appropriations bills
D) Congress adopts a budget resolution
E) president submits budget proposals to Congress

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