Before the Civil Service Act of 1883 government appointments were handled on the basis of the _______ system.
What is Spoils?
100
Confirming presidential appointees to key positions in the federal bureaucracy in one way __________ controls the bureaucracy.
What is Congress?
100
Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in the federal hierarchy.
What is a department?
100
The ________ is the independent regulatory agency that sets interest rates on treasury notes.
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
100
A form of organization that operates through impersonal, uniform regulations and procedures
What is bureaucracy?
200
President James Garfield's assassination in 1881 and the Pendleton Act of 1883 led to the creation of the ______ _______ _________ System.
What is the Civil Service Merit System?
200
The president exercises control over agencies and departments in the federal bureaucracy by. . . .
What is Proposing budgets or nominating federal appointees to office?
200
A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
What is Independent Regulatory Commission?
200
AMTRAK is this type of government agency . . .
What is a Government Corporation?
200
A policy making instrument composed of a tightly related alliance of a congressional committee, interest groups, and a federal department or agency.
What is Iron Triangle?
300
Senior officers in the federal bureaucracy are ________ by the president and confirmed by the ___________.
What is Appointed/Senate?
300
Congress and the President share this power over agencies and departments in the federal bureaucracy.
What is the power to influence budgets?
300
A government agency that is designed like a business corporation, and is created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
What is a government corporation?
300
Of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, and Treasury, this was one of the first executive branch departments in the United States.
What is the Treasury Department?
300
The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic regulations or spending.
What is implementation?
400
Authority given by Congress to the federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
What is Administrative Discretion?
400
The Supreme Court exercises control over the decisions of agencies and departments in the federal bureaucracy by. .
What is Finding their decisions unconstitutional?
400
A Government agency that operates outside a traditional government department but under the president's direct control.
What is an Independent (Stand Alone) Executive Agency?
400
NASA and the CIA are this type of government agency.
What are Independent Executive (Stand Alone) agencies?
400
An official document, published every weekday that lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies
What is the Federal Register?
500
A federal statute barring federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds
What is the Hatch Act?
500
The main function of the departments and agencies in the federal bureaucracy is to
What is Implement Public Policies?
500
These are rules created by government agencies that determine how laws are implemented.
What are regulations?
500
This was established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible, mobile corps of senior career executives who work closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
What is the Senior Executive Service?
500
Includes the idea that bureaucratic agencies seek perpetuity through budgeting and assume their agency is essential to the operation of government.