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- 1. Multiple Choice
What act depoliticized the civil service by prohibiting department heads from compelling their workers to campaign for their reelection?
The Civil Service Reform Act 1883
Pendleton Act 1883
Hatch Act 1939
None of the above
- 2. Multiple Choice
What act ended the spoils systems and created the civil service?
Pendleton Act 1883
Civil Service Reform Act 1883
The Hatch Act 1939
A and B
- 3. Multiple Choice
What does the fourth branch of government refer to?
The press
The federal bureaucracy
The electoral college
The executive branch
- 4. Multiple Choice
How do bureaucrats divide their work?
According to education and work experience
By the line and staff
By professionalism and meritocracy
None of the above
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which bureaucracies are quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial institutions that monitor social and economic sectors for adherence to the rules and regulations governing these sectors and for fairness?
Independent Regulatory Commissions
Federal Departments
Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal
None of the above
- 6. Multiple Choice
What are not characteristics of independent regulatory commissions?
Members have long and staggered terms of office
Members cannot be removed by the president
Commissions are roughly equally divided by partisan party and the commission head is from the majority party
None of the above
- 7. Multiple Choice
Regulatory commissions are mandated to regulate which areas of society?
Commercial and financial sectors
Industrial and environmental sectors
Political and Social sectors
All the above
- 8. Multiple Choice
What “rule” of bureaucracy says bureaucrats are promoted until they reach the level of their incompetency?
Parkinson’s Law
Peter’s Principle
Burke’s Law
None of the above
- 9. Multiple Choice
What are the broad social purposes of bureaucracies?
To implement public policy
To grow as much as possible to offset and regulate capitalism
To impose order and stability in society
None of the above
- 10. Multiple Choice
How many Departments are in the federal government?
10
15
19
50
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who are the bureaucrats in the federal bureaucracy?
The Secretaries of each Department
The undersecretaries of the Departments
The civil service employees
All the above
- 12. Multiple Choice
What are government corporations?
Failed corporations taken over by the government like GM, Chrysler and major banks and financial institutions that collapsed in 2008
All the independent agencies
Government organizations that have to pay-as-they-go like the Post Office and Amtrak
None of the above
- 13. Multiple Choice
What type of administrative system was used prior to the establishment of meritocracy in the federal bureaucracy?
The spoils system
Nepotism
The Pendelton system
None of the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
Where are specialties of a federal bureaucracy performed?
In the department regional offices
In the department local offices
In the department bureaus
All the above
- 15. Multiple Choice
What idea is a rationalization used by bureaucrats to avoid admitting a program is failing?
Sunken cost
Polycentrism
Peter Principle
None of the above
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is the constitutional basis for the legality of the federal bureaucracies, inclusive of departments, agencies, and commissions?
Article 6 (national supremacy clause)
Article 1 Section 8 (necessary and proper clause)
14th Amendment (equal protection clause)
All the above
- 17. Multiple Choice
What did the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act do?
Abolished the “civil service”
Establish the Office of Personnel Management
Establish the Merit System Protection Board
All the above
- 18. Multiple Choice
What is the constitutional basis of the rules, regulations, and protocols of federal bureaucracies superseding state laws or state regulations?
What is the constitutional basis of the rules, regulations, and protocols of federal bureaucracies superseding state laws or state regulations?
Article 1 Section 8
The 10th Amendment
Article 6
- 19. Multiple Choice
What federal law protects individuals who publicly report government misconduct from being punished?
Parkinson’s Law
The 2012 Whistleblower Act
The 1978 Civil Service Reform Act
None of the above
- 20. Multiple Choice
What independent government bureaucracy did the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act create?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Office of Personnel Management
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
All the above
- 21. Multiple Choice
What political term describes trading loyalty for jobs and contracts?
Spoils System
Patronage
Malfeasance
Graft
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