Question 1

What differentiates a bureaucrat from other types of government officials like elected office holders or political appointees?

Accepted Answer

A)   The size of their salaries
B)   The amount of responsibility they have
C)   The nature of their employment: bureaucrats are temporary and the others are permanent
D)   The nature of their employment: bureaucrats are permanent and the others are temporary

Question 2

The proportion of the American workforce that is employed full-time by the federal government steadily grew in the 2000's to become the highest at any time since the 1970s?

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

What do the three sources of executive control over the bureaucracy have the potential to do?

Accepted Answer

A)   Enhance coordination and accountability in government
B)   Limit coordination in order to facilitate accountability in government
C)   Enhance coordination and limit congressional oversight of the government
D)   Increase executive accountability while decreasing legislative dependence

Question 4

Republican presidents use their leverage over the bureaucracy to limit its intrusion into the private sector.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

What is implementation as it relates to bureaucratic policy making?

Accepted Answer

A)   The process of creating policy
B)   The process of defining ideal policy outcomes
C)   The process of making policy work in the real world
D)   All of the above

Question 6

Republican presidents, including Donald Trump, have used their leverage over the bureaucracy to _______its intrusion into the private sector.

Accepted Answer

A)   limit
B)   maintain
C)   advance
D)   None of the above, since the president has no control over government bureaucracies

Question 7

In 2016, administrative law judges heard _______disputes concerning Medicare services.

Accepted Answer

A)   860
B)   8600
C)   86000
D)   860000

Question 8

Discuss the evolution of the federal bureaucracy since the New Deal.

Accepted Answer

The federal bureaucracy has evolved sign...

Question 9

What federal bureaucratic system did the Pendleton Act of 1883 replace?

Accepted Answer

A)   The federal reserve system
B)   The patronage system
C)   The civil service system
D)   Both of the last two options

Question 10

Which of these was an original Cabinet-level department?

Accepted Answer

A)   State
B)   Interior
C)   Federal Reserve
D)   Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 11

Which segment of the transportation economy was the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)  established to regulate?

Accepted Answer

A)   Steamships
B)   Ironclads
C)   Railroads
D)   Trucks

Question 12

What should the government do to foster economic growth in the United States?

Accepted Answer

By the late nineteenth century, industri...

Question 13

Donald Trump systematically sought to roll-back the Obama era regulations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

From the Let's Compare section, what is the relative size of the governmental workforce in the United States compared to similarly constituted countries?

Accepted Answer

A)   It is larger
B)   It is smaller
C)   It is about the same

Question 15

The civil service has become increasingly demographically reflective of American society?

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The Pendleton Act was designed to bring an end to the patronage practices of the early 19th century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of these statements most accurately describes the nature and origin of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946?

Accepted Answer

A)   It was passed by executive order in order to define the nature and process of bureaucratic decision making
B)   It was passed by the Congress in order to define the nature and process of bureaucratic decision making
C)   It was passed by the Congress in order to maximize bureaucratic discretion in decision making
D)   Both of the last two options

Question 18

The United States employs the largest percentage of its workforce in the bureaucracy of any industrialized democratic nation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Historically, independent regulatory commissions were not assigned technical policy areas where expertise was to govern.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Cabinet level department heads have the title of Secretary.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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