Question 1

Congress often deliberately delegates to an administrative agency the responsibility of lawmaking.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

How do public agencies maintain their base of power within government?

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Question 3

Which federal agency has authority over the credit rates and lending activities of the nation's most important banks?

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A)  Treasury Department
B)  Federal Reserve System
C)  Internal Revenue Service
D)  Securities and Exchange Commission
E)  Department of the InteriorF) B) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 4

Where is the administration of fiscal policy primarily performed?

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A)  in the Treasury Department
B)  in the Federal Reserve System
C)  in the Office of Management and Budget
D)  in the Securities and Exchange Commission
E)  in the Bureau of AppropriationsF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

What is the most important revenue agency in the United States today?

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A)  Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 
B)  Department of the Treasury
C)  Federal Reserve Bank
D)  Division of Taxation
E)  Federal ReserveF) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

Describe how the executive branch of the American system of government is organized.

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Question 7

A governmental agency set up by Congress outside the departmental structure altogether is known as a(n) :

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A)  cabinet department
B)  independent agency
C)  shell corporation
D)  independent regulatory commission
E)  rogue agencyF) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

The only certain way to reduce the size of bureaucracy is to eliminate programs.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What is a bureaucracy?

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A)  the place where bureaus are made
B)  the loose network of presidential staffers and political consultants that sets the course of the nation
C)  all the people who work for the government
D)  the partnership between congressional committees,agencies,and organized interests
E)  the complex structure of offices,tasks,rules,and principles of organization that are employed by all large-scale institutions to coordinate the work of their personnelF) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

Do bureaucratic agencies make public policies,or do they simply implement executive orders and laws made by Congress? Explain your answer.

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Question 11

The federal service has not been growing any faster than the economy or the rest of society.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Why do the authors of the text say bureaucracy makes government possible?

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A)  It makes for the efficient implementation of policy and allows a credible commitment to the long-term existence of a policy.
B)  It takes the power to implement policy from the hands of corrupt politicians and places it in the hands of bureaucrats.
C)  It increases the responsiveness of the government to the wishes of the people.
D)  It removes politics from the policy-making process,putting apolitical bureaucrats in charge instead of politicians.
E)  The workforce of government employees provides a powerful political force for expanding government spending.F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 13

How have U.S.presidents attempted to reform the federal bureaucracy? Have they been successful?

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Question 14

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons the authors of the text give for having a bureaucracy?

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A)  Bureaucracies enhance efficiency.
B)  Bureaucracies are the instruments of policy implementation.
C)  Legislatures find it valuable to delegate.
D)  Bureaucracies make the legislative process more deliberative.
E)  Legislators prefer to avoid making detailed decisions.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 15

What are the efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic routines called?

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A)  lex republica
B)  effectuation
C)  calcification
D)  implementation
E)  codificationF) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

Which of the following tasks is NOT a task of the Treasury Department?

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A)  managing the federal debt
B)  printing currency
C)  administering tax collection
D)  regulating interest rates to influence the supply of money to banks
E)  policing tax collectionF) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 17

Which term defines congressional efforts to exercise control over the activities of bureaucratic agencies in the executive branch through hearings,investigations,and other techniques?

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A)  oversight
B)  regulation
C)  invigilation
D)  superintendence
E)  macro-managementF) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 18

A type of government agency that is outside the departmental structure but operates more like a private business that charges for its services is called a(n) :

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A)  cabinet department
B)  independent agency
C)  government corporation
D)  independent regulatory commission
E)  government contractorF) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 19

The primary political problem with the United States military is:

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A)  incompetence
B)  pork-barrel politics
C)  maintenance of civilian control
D)  undue interference with the democratic process
E)  declining marksmanship in the American populationF) C) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 20

Bureaucracies can make rules that have the full force of law,just like laws passed by Congress.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 7: The Executive Branch

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons the authors of the text give for having a bureaucracy?

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Which of the following tasks is NOT a task of the Treasury Department?

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What are the efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic routines called?

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Which term defines congressional efforts to exercise control over the activities of bureaucratic agencies in the executive branch through hearings,investigations,and other techniques?

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Bureaucracies can make rules that have the full force of law,just like laws passed by Congress.

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Which federal agency has authority over the credit rates and lending activities of the nation's most important banks?

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Where is the administration of fiscal policy primarily performed?

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The only certain way to reduce the size of bureaucracy is to eliminate programs.

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How do public agencies maintain their base of power within government?

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Congress often deliberately delegates to an administrative agency the responsibility of lawmaking.

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The primary political problem with the United States military is:

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What is the most important revenue agency in the United States today?

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What is a bureaucracy?

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A governmental agency set up by Congress outside the departmental structure altogether is known as a(n) :

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Why do the authors of the text say bureaucracy makes government possible?

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Do bureaucratic agencies make public policies,or do they simply implement executive orders and laws made by Congress? Explain your answer.

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Describe how the executive branch of the American system of government is organized.

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The federal service has not been growing any faster than the economy or the rest of society.

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How have U.S.presidents attempted to reform the federal bureaucracy? Have they been successful?

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A type of government agency that is outside the departmental structure but operates more like a private business that charges for its services is called a(n) :

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