Chapter 15: Bureaucracy at Work

Question 1

What term is responsible for policy making

Answer 1

Bureaucracy

Question 2

Congress passing laws to create governmental agencies is an example of what?

Answer 2

Bureaucracy

Question 3

Congress game Bureaucracy that authority to do what?

Answer 3

To make many policy decisions

Question 4

What term means the right to make policy comes in many forms

Answer 4

Authority

Question 5

What 2 things fall under authority

Answer 5

Implementation and Administrative Discretion

Question 6

What means putting a law or policy into action

Answer 6

Implementation

Question 7

What means bureaucrats deciding how to implement laws Congress tries to pass

Answer 7

Administrative Discretion

Question 8

What are 3 stable relationships of iron triangles

Answer 8

Agency, interest groups, and congressional committees

Question 9

What is hard to breach if you’re an outsider

Answer 9

Iron Triangles

Question 10

Iron triangles only advance the goals of who?

Answer 10

One group of people

Question 11

True or False
Iron Triangles do a lot for the nation as a whole

Answer 11

False, they don’t do much for the nation at large

Question 12

What are examples of Iron Triangles

Answer 12

AARP, Social Security

Question 13

What is made up of a large number of individuals and groups who work in many different policy areas

Answer 13

Issue Networks

Question 14

Besides being policy pushing organizations, issue Networks may also be what?

Answer 14

Political Think Tanks

Question 15

Today we tend to do what with Iron Triangles

Answer 15

Replace them

Question 16

Iron Triangles have difficulty keeping control over what?

Answer 16

Keeping control over interest groups, committee people, lawyers, and courts

Question 17

Who are some members of Issue Networks

Answer 17

Agencies, Interest groups, committee people, lawyers, and courts

Question 18

What are some examples of iron triangles

Answer 18

Child healthcare, welfare, corporations, justice administrations

Question 19

What means holding bureaucrats and other public officials responsible for how them implement laws and presidential directives

Answer 19

Accountability

Question 20

Describe checks and balances

Answer 20

All 3 branches have the ability to enforce accountability

Question 21

What is some presidential action used to keep bureaucracy in line

Answer 21

Appoint/Remove agency heads
Reorganized bureaucracy
Change budgets
Ignore initiatives
Veto Bills

Question 22

What are presidential directives to agencies that provide the basis for carrying out laws or establishing new policies

Answer 22

President Issuing executive Orders