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POLI 2051 Chapter 14 Exam Questions Correct Answers New Update (A+ Pass) As a percentage of the total workforce, which of the following has been true regarding federal government civilian employment over the last several decades? - It has been declining Which federal department has the greates...

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POLI 2051 Chapter 14 Exam Questions
Correct Answers New Update (A+
Pass)

As a percentage of the total workforce, which of the following has been true regarding federal

government civilian employment over the last several decades? - ✔✔It has been declining


Which federal department has the greatest number of employees? - ✔✔Department of defense


Which of the following is a disadvantage of the civil service system? - ✔✔Firing incompetent employees

is very difficult


4.Who is in charge of hiring most federal employees? - ✔✔a.The office of personnel management


5.Which of the following is true regarding the independent regulatory commissions? - ✔✔a.They may

develop too close of a relationship with the industry they are supposed to be regulating


6.Which of the following best describes government corporations? - ✔✔a.They provide a service the

private sector could provide


7.How are cabinet secretaries selected? - ✔✔By the president with approval from the senate


8.Which agency serves as the government's landlord and handles buildings, supplies, and purchasing? -

✔✔General services administration


9.Why do bureaucracies use standard operating procedures? - ✔✔To facilitate everyday decision making




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Which of the following contributes to the fragmentation of the bureaucracy? - ✔✔The different

bureaucracies often do not communicate with each other


Which of the following is a critical resource for successful policy implementation? - ✔✔Sufficient staff


12.How do implementors dispositions toward the policies they administer affect how they implement

these policies? - ✔✔a.If implementors do not like the policy, there is more likely to be slippage in its

implementation


13.To be effective, regulatory agencies must have, _______________. - ✔✔a.A means of enforcing

compliance with their rules and regulations


14.Which of the following best describes deregulation? - ✔✔a.It involves lifting restrictions on economic

activity


15.Which of the following statements about government regulation in America is accurate? - ✔✔a.Until

1887 the federal government made almost no regulatory policies and had no regulatory agencies


16.Which of the following is an element of regulation? - ✔✔a.A grant of power and a set of directions

from congress


17.Which of the following tactics is the president most likely to use to try to exercise control over the

federal bureaucracy? - ✔✔a.Appointing the right people to head agencies


18.How does congress try to control the bureaucracy? - ✔✔a.By rewriting laws


19.Which of the following is an example of an iron triangle? - ✔✔a.A congressional subcommittee on

aging, AARP, and the Social Security Administration working in close, frequent contact on polcies related

to aging


20.Which of the following helps explain the death of the iron triangle surrounding nuclear energy policy?

- ✔✔a.The environmental concerns that developed in the 1960s



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