A) Every member and official of a government agency has been appointed as part of the merit system.
B) The merit system establishes competitive exams for jobs.
C) The merit system gives bureaucrats job protection.
D) The merit system in federal employment originated in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
E) The merit system stipulates that appointees to public office must be qualified for the job to which they are appointed.
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A) Deregulation
B) Devolution
C) Termination
D) Privatization
E) Implementation
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A) Republican administrations have aimed to make the existing bureaucracy work more effectively while Democratic administrations have sought to reduce bureaucracy by contracting out government work to private companies.
B) Democratic administrations have aimed to make the existing bureaucracy work more effectively while Republican administrations have sought to reduce bureaucracy by contracting out government work to private companies.
C) Both Democratic and Republican administrations have rejected the idea of reducing bureaucracy and have aimed to make existing bureaucracy work more effectively.
D) Both Democratic and Republican administrations have given up on trying to make the existing bureaucracy function more effectively and instead sought to reduce bureaucracy by contracting out government work to private companies.
E) Both Democrats and Republicans have avoided any attempts to reform government bureaucracy.
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A) making sure that every bill that was passed by Congress during his first term was put up on the White House website to be viewed by the public for at least five days before holding a vote
B) invoking the state secrets privilege to prevent lawsuits related to warrantless wiretapping and torture from going to trial
C) issuing an executive order designed to promote more rapid declassification of secret documents
D) repealing the USA PATRIOT Act
E) releasing a report by the Health and Human Services Department that indicated the health care reform law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, even though this would make it harder for Congress to pass the bill
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C
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A) They are part of the federal bureaucracy's merit system.
B) They are selected by the president, often as patronage for large campaign donations.
C) They are selected by the secretary of state.
D) They are elected to four-year terms of office by the nation to which they will be ambassador.
E) They are appointed by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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A) the stable relationship between a bureaucratic agency, a clientele group, and a legislative committee
B) the inability to reform federal rules without help from the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the president
C) the domination of a few large companies in the regulation of iron mining and smelting
D) the breakdown in the separation of powers between Congress, the federal judiciary, and the president
E) the stable relationship between a bureaucratic agency, a legislative committee, and the president
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A) Fiscal
B) Monetary
C) Welfare
D) Regulatory
E) Distributive
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A) redistributive
B) police
C) regulatory
D) fiscal
E) clientele
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A) the Civil Rights division
B) the Antitrust division
C) the Internal Revenue Service
D) the Criminal division
E) the Tax division
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A) The number of oversight hearings has decreased over time as the bureaucracy has expanded.
B) While the number of oversight hearings has increased over time as the bureaucracy has expanded, the extent of oversight does depend somewhat on which party controls the White House.
C) The number of oversight hearings has remained constant over time despite the fact that bureaucracy has expanded.
D) While the number of oversight hearings has increased over time as the bureaucracy has expanded, the extent of oversight does not depend on which party controls the White House.
E) Oversight has been eliminated as a result of a 2012 Supreme Court decision.
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A) the National Park Service
B) the U.S. Postal Service
C) the Department of Defense
D) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
E) the Department of Agriculture
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A) Richard Nixon
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Bill Clinton
E) Woodrow Wilson
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A) most agencies have a supportive constituency that will fight to reinstate any cuts that are made.
B) the Constitution prevents cuts to federal agencies lasting longer than five years.
C) every permanent cut to a federal agency must be reviewed by the Supreme Court before it can be put into effect.
D) federal law requires that the government cut every agency equally.
E) the vast majority of agencies have been given permanent "budgetary immunity" from the president that protects them from cuts.
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A) Congress gives up some of its power to the executive branch.
B) the federal government is downsized by delegating the implementation of programs to state and local governments.
C) state and local governments are downsized by delegating the implementation of programs to the federal government.
D) the United States delegates some of its power to the United Nations.
E) the federal government is downsized by completely cutting wasteful programs.
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A) individual constituency case work
B) committee hearings and investigations
C) budgeting process
D) government agencies such as the GAO and the CBO
E) having members of Congress work part-time for a particular agency that is struggling to meet the demands Congress has placed on it
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A) printing currency
B) managing the U.S. national debt
C) setting interest rates
D) administering fiscal policy
E) ensuring deposits individuals make at federally qualifying banks
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A) it is the one government agency that does not have to obey court orders.
B) the IRS is the most popular agency in all of government, and this popularity leads almost all Americans to comply with the agency's rules.
C) Congress, the president, and the Treasury Department have little to no influence over the taxation decisions made by the IRS.
D) influence over tax decisions regarding exemptions is spread broadly throughout the 50 states and is not concentrated in any one area or among any one group.
E) contrary to popular perceptions, key tax decisions regarding exemptions are made by Congress, the president, and the Treasury Department rather than by the IRS itself.
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A) the U.S. Postal Service
B) the Department of Agriculture
C) the Federal Bureau of Investigation
D) the Environmental Protection Agency
E) the Forest Service
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A) more efficient executive management
B) further devolution
C) congressional oversight
D) more administrative courts
E) more government regulation
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A) the Federal Reserve System
B) the Agricultural Extension Service
C) the U.S. Customs Service
D) the Securities and Exchange Commission
E) the U.S. Department of Revenue
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