AP GOV STUDY SESSION NOTES BUREAUCRACY 2-11-10
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
o Q: Where does the term red tape come from?
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A: The English
o Q: What does bureaucrat (employee) mean?
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A: Entire career/life, specialize in 1 area, job security, promotions, hard to fire you.
o Q: What percent of federal workforce is African-American?
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A: Lowest
o Q: How many cabinet positions were there before 9-11?
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A: 14, 15 after 9-11
o Q: What are the attributes of a bureaucracy?
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A: Hierarchical structure, Rules and regulations, job specialization, by the book,
responsibility (always ask permission), impersonal (DMV = Hell).
o Q: What is the largest organizational chunk of the bureaucracy?
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A: Department, then agencies
o Q: What does bureaucracy originally mean?
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A: Referred to as tablecloth
o Q: Bureaucrats are:
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A: Efficient and predictable
o Q: Which merit system passed after Garfield died?
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A: Pennelton act
o Q: Which office administers laws and regulations?
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A: Office of personnel management
o Q: Which is the most recent office added to Executive office?
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A: Homeland Security
o Q: Which agency disciplines?
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A: Merit System
o Q: Who heads departments?
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A: Secretaries
o Q: In 2002 did the post office gain or lose money?
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A: Lose 1.5 billion
o Q: Who was the head of the Federal Reserve before Bernanke?
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A: Alan Greenspan
o Q: Which is an independent regulatory agency?
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A: Securities and Exchange Commission
o Know senior Executive service
o Q: The Center for Disease Control, what happened that started it?
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A: Waterborne malaria
o Q: How many federal employees work in DC?
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A: 15 – 20%
o Q: What do bureaucratic organizations dislike?
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A: Outside Direction
o Q: Can candidates run for public office?
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A: Yes
o Q: What is it called when a law goes into practice?
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A: Implementation
o Q: What is it called when there is an automatic compensation for inflation?
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A: Index
o Q: What is the program called when it includes disability, disaster relief etc?
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A: Entitlement
o Q: Has the bureaucracy grown or shrunk?
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A: Gradual increase
o Q: What are ways to get hired in Civil Service?
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A: Take a test
o Q: Main function of bureaucracy?
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A: Implementation of laws
o Q: What is different between federal agency and legislative committee?
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A: Fed enforces/implement/regulate, legislative makes
o Q: When bureaucracy does get help from interest groups what is it for?
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A: Budget