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a relationship between an agency, a committee and an interest group
What is the Iron Triangle?
100
year the Department of Agriculture was created
What is 1862?
100
JM
Who is James Madison?
100
The real power over an agency’s budget is exercised by
What is the Appropriations Committee?
100
designed to recruit qualified people on the basis of merit, not political patronage
What is the federal civil service system?
200
first Secretary of State
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
year the Department of Labor was created
What is 1882?
200
TJ
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
the department concerned with paying the public debt
What is the Treasury Department?
200
the first occasion during which the government made heavy use of federal income taxes
What is World War II?
300
Social Security, Medicare and the Environmental Protection are examples of government being run this way
What is by proxy?
300
year the Department of Commerce was created
What is 1903?
300
HH
Who is Hugh Heclo?
300
The proper role of government in the economy was to
What is promote, not to regulate?
300
the State Department started with only this many number of employees
What is 9?
400
PO
What is the Pension Office?
400
year the Pendleton Act was passed
What is 1883?
400
DEA
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration?
400
freely competitive economy
What is laissez-faire?
400
the complex rules and procedures that must be followed to get something done
What is red tape?
500
the department in which your nominated by the president, confirmed in the Senate and are “to be removable by the president” alone
What is Department of State?
500
year the Civil Service Reform Act was passed
What is 1978?
500
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What is the American Legion?
500
bureaucracy was largely a product of which two events
What is the Depression and World War II?
500
during this period, new agencies were created, many to deal with particular sectors of society and the economy
What is 1861-1901?