American Democracy Now, 2nd Edition (Harrison)

Chapter 13: The Bureaucracy

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Which of the following people is NOT a bureaucrat?
A)an employee at the Registry of Motor Vehicles
B)an inspector for the Food and Drug Administration
C)a city council member
D)a lawyer at the Social Security office
2
A person hired by private-sector and nonprofit-sector organizations that implement public policy through a government contract or grant-in-aid is called a
A)private servant.
B)public servant.
C)shadow bureaucrat.
D)faux bureaucrat.
3
Which of the following is true about bureaucrats?
A)They tend to have lower levels of education than workers in the private sector.
B)They tend to report higher levels of job satisfaction than workers in the private sector.
C)They express little concern for helping the public.
D)They tend not to be hard workers.
4
Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of bureaucracy?
A)a hierarchical structure
B)specialization of job tasks
C)freedom for worker improvisation
D)hiring systems based on worker competency
5
Which of the following are bureaucracies?
A)governments
B)universities
C)corporations
D)All these answers are correct.
6
The merit-based civil service system was instituted in the United States government in order to lessen the role of patronage after a disgruntled office-seeker assassinated which president?
A)Abraham Lincoln
B)James Garfield
C)William McKinley
D)John F. Kennedy
7
Which of the following is NOT true of present-day employees of the federal bureaucracy when compared with the federal bureaucrats in 1970?
A)They tend to be older.
B)They are more likely to be white.
C)They are more likely to be female.
D)They tend to be more experienced.
8
Which of the following executive branch organizations are headed by a secretary and responsible for one broadly defined policy area?
A)departments
B)government corporations
C)independent administrative agencies
D)independent regulatory commissions
9
Which of the following is NOT an example of an independent administrative agency?
A)National Aeronautics and Space Administration
B)Social Security Administration
C)Presidential Commission on Excellence in Special Education
D)Office of Personnel Management
10
Among the original cabinet departments created were
A)Labor and Commerce.
B)Justice and Education.
C)Transportation and War.
D)State and Treasury.
11
Which of the following is true about the politics-administration dichotomy?
A)It is difficult to implement in practice.
B)It is strictly maintained within the federal government.
C)It keeps civil servants from implementing policy.
D)All these answers are correct.
12
The process by which agencies resolve disputes over the implementation of their administrative rules is called
A)administrative adjudication.
B)administrative rulemaking.
C)administrative law.
D)administrative discretion.
13
What roles do bureaucrats play in the passage of appropriation laws?
A)They prepare a budget for submission to Congress.
B)They testify before Congress to explain their budget requests.
C)They lobby Congress to appropriate the funds they requested.
D)All these answers are correct.
14
When Congress and the president want to create an agency that is protected in its decision-making from partisan politics, they would likely create a
A)cabinet department.
B)government corporation.
C)presidential commission.
D)independent administrative agency.
15
Cabinet departments, in terms of organization, are
A)directly accountable to the president.
B)independent of direct control by the president.
C)responsible for the actions of independent agencies.
D)directly under the control of Congress.
16
________ are legislation that opens up government functions and documents to the public.
A)Authorization laws
B)Appropriation laws
C)Administrative laws
D)Sunshine laws
17
Shadow bureaucrats are hired by which of the following?
A)the president
B)the Central Intelligence Agency
C)the Federal Bureau of Investigation
D)private and nonprofit employers
18
Government constraints on business practices aimed at ensuring competition in the marketplace and a healthy economy are known as
A)economic regulations.
B)social regulations.
C)market regulations.
D)security regulations.
19
What is the law that requires federal agencies to give citizens access to government documents upon request and at reasonable cost?
A)the Government in the Sunshine Act
B)the Freedom of Information Act
C)the Federal Register Act
D)the E-Government Act
20
Which of the following is an organization that monitors and evaluates the activities of bureaucrats?
A)the Office of Budget Oversight
B)MoveOn
C)Common Cause
D)All these answers are correct.
21
In their oversight of administrative agencies, the courts most often focus on whether these agencies are providing citizens with which of the following?
A)due process and free exercise of religion
B)equal protection and freedom of speech
C)freedom of speech and the right to counsel
D)due process and equal protection
22
Congress oversees administrative agencies by which of the following processes?
A)confirmation of much of the agencies' leadership
B)control over agency appropriations
C)oversight of agencies' policy implementations
D)All these answers are correct.
23
An instrument that forces the expiration of a program or policy after a specific number of years unless Congress reauthorizes it is known as which of the following?
A)a sunset clause
B)a closure clause
C)an expiration clause
D)a reauthorization clause
24
Which of the following executive agencies handles evaluation of bureaucratic performance?
A)the Government Accountability Project
B)the Office of Management and Budget
C)the Executive Office of the President
D)the Inspector General
25
Which of the following is true about inspectors general in the federal government?
A)They receive monetary rewards for exposing frauds that harm the U.S. government.
B)They are embedded within administrative agencies to monitor policy implementation.
C)They are sent in to investigate after a claim of malfeasance has been made.
D)None of these answers is correct.
Harrison: American Democracy Now, 2nd Edition
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