The Federal Bureaucracy Test Bank Questions And Answers Chapter 15
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Issue networks are
A) a growing participatory force in bureaucratic decision making whose
membersʹ interest in issues is intellectual or emotional rather than material.
B) the same as ʺiron triangles.ʺ
C) the relatively new television stations that specialize in political coverage.
D) subj...
The Federal Bureaucracy Test
Bank Questions And Answers
Chapter 15
Each bureaucratic agency is created initially by
A) constitutional provision.
B) the president.
C) the bureaucracy itself.
D) Congress.
E) order of a federal court.
✓~ D
Which of the following statements about bureaucracies is FALSE?
A) Bureaucratic power extends to every corner of American economic and social
life.
B) Bureaucracies are scarcely hinted at in the Constitution.
,C) Nothing better illustrates the complexity of modern government than its
massive bureaucracies.
D) Each bureaucratic agency is created by the president.
E) How to manage and control bureaucracies is a central problem of democratic
government.
✓~ D
Which of the following is TRUE about the federal bureaucracy?
A) Most federal bureaucrats work in Washington, D.C.
B) The state and local governments have far more employees than the federal
bureaucracy. C) The size of the federal bureaucracy has grown dramatically
over the past twenty years. D) Most Americans are dissatisfied with their
encounters with bureaucrats.
E) all of the above
✓~ B
Studies have found that most Americans
A) dislike bureaucrats.
,B) are indifferent about bureaucracies and bureaucrats.
C) are satisfied with the help received from bureaucrats.
D) actually like bureaucracies.
E) want the government bureaucracy dismantled.
✓~ C
Which of the following statements about the size of bureaucracies is FALSE?
A) State and local public employees far outnumber civilian federal government
employees.
B) As a percentage of Americaʹs total work force, federal government
employment has been growing.
C) Almost all the growth in the number of public employees has occurred in
state and local governments.
D) Federal government employment amounts to about three percent of all
civilian jobs.
E) None of the above; all of the above statements are TRUE.
✓~ B
, As a percentage of the total work force, federal government employment is
A) rapidly becoming greater than employment in the private sector.
B) greater than state and local government employment.
C) rising.
D) declining.
E) stabilizing.
✓~ D
The classic conception of a bureaucracy was advanced by ________, who
argued that the bureaucracy was a ʺrationalʺ way for a modern society to
conduct its business.
A) Max Weber
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) John Locke
D) Charles L. Schultze
E) James Madison
✓~ A
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