Explore the intricacies of the U. S. Federal Bureaucracy with this trivia quiz. Test your knowledge on topics like the merit system, the Hatch Act, and historical shifts in bureaucratic practices. Ideal for students of political science and public administration.
Congressional Budget Office
Department of Treasury
Securities and Exchange Commission
Office of Management and Budget
Office of the Vice President
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Established the patronage system for federal employment
Prohibited the president from firing the heads of independent executive agencies
Prohibits federal civil service employees from active participation in partisan politics
Required the publication of the plum book
Established the federal civil service
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10
15
20
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Street-level bureaucrats
Routinizers
General Schedule foot soldiers
The Senior Executive Service
Civil servants
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Representatives of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government
The president, the head of a relevant congressional committee, and the head of any regulatory agency
A bureaucratic agency, an interest group, and a congressional committee or subcommittee
The metal stamp used to certify that the president has approved a new regulation and it now takes legal effect
Those favoring regulation X, those opposing regulation X, and the regulatory agency in charge of overseeing X
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Firing incompetents is extremely difficult
Workers are not protected against political firings
It does not operate on the merit principle
Too many federal civil servants are actively involved in partisan politics
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Less diverse in terms of the type of jobs than the private sector
Dominated by white males
More broadly representative of the American people than the rest of the federal government
Composed of an American elite
Now employing 15 percent of the American work force
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Knowing the right people
Civil service exams
Talent and skill
The Pendleton Act
The merit principle
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Operate an airline, manufacture steel, and provide health insurance
Provide services and charge for them
Tend to be captured by interest groups
Are independent regulatory agencies
Sell stock and pay dividends
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Its goal was clear
Its implementation was straightforward
The authority of the implementers was plain
It was universally supported
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The plum book
Supreme Court rulings curbing the scope of their oversight
"iron triangles.”
Standard operating procedures
The incentive system
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Homeland Security
Environmental Protection Agency
Defense
State
Interior
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Extensive rules
An incentive system
Task specialization
The merit principle
A hierarchical authority structure
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Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Charles Guiteau
Jimmy Carter
Complete independence from the president, but their policymakers are appointed by Congress
Powerful rule-making, dispute-settling, and enforcement authority.
No formal ties to either the president or the Congress
Governing commissions composed of long-time federal Civil Service employees
Patronage
Civil service
Hatch
Civilian
Military
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Government corporations
Independent regulatory agencies
Cabinet departments
Independent executive agencies
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The Tennessee Valley Authority
The U.S. Postal Service
Amtrak
General Services Administration
National Science Foundation
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They often do not know their own agency subordinates very well, much less people in other agencies.
They must be recommended by the Office of Personnel Management's "rule of three.”
As political appointees, they are often unaccustomed to the administrative routines, budget cycles, and legal complexities of their agencies or departments.
They tend to spend fewer years in their positions than those in the civil service.
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