A clear chain of command, in which all employees know who their supervisors are as well as who reports to them, is an example of a
hierarchy.
In many policy areas, multiple agencies have overlapping responsibilities, leading to
turf wars
In theory, who controls the bureaucracy?
president
President George Washington's administration had all of the following cabinet departments except
interior
The 1966 _________ facilitates full or partial disclosure of government documents and information.
Freedom of Information Act
The bureaucracy is discussed in which article of the Constitution?
The bureaucracy is not mentioned in the Constitution.
The cabinet agency charged with supervising Native American affairs, national parks, geological surveys, oceans and energy, and surface mining, among many other responsibilities, is
the Department of the Interior.
The daily journal of the federal government is
the Federal Register
The practice by which political winners reward their supporters with government jobs and contracts is known as
the spoils system.
While bureaucracies have multiple principals who monitor their actions and create policies, bureaucrats still
operate with considerable autonomy.
A critical dimension to making privatization of government services work is
careful oversight
According to the text, bureaucracies run on
expertise.
After an agency has devised a rule, it sends the rule to the _____ for approval.
Office of Management and Budget
All of the following are independent executive agencies EXCEPT
the State Department.
Approximately how many people are on government payrolls?
23 million
Bureaucratic officials participate in which steps in the policy-making process?
all of them
Bureaus of the federal government that regulate business are dubbed
independent regulatory commissions.
Congress controls the bureaucracy by all of the following EXCEPT:
personal contributions
Created in 1887, the ________ was the first independent regulatory agency.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Public officials who deal directly with the public are called
street-level bureaucrats.
The last step in the long bureaucratic process of creating a law is
implementation.
The logic driving presidential appointees to head government agencies
is to provide political direction to bureaucracies.
The three legs of an iron triangle in government include all of the following except
the president.
There are two steps to the bureaucratic process of putting a law into practice:
printing and dissemination
Which of the following is an example of a federal agency designed to serve a clientele group?
Agriculture