AP Gov Ch 8 - Alyssa Rosales

Question 1

administrative adjudication

Answer 1

Administrative adjudication is the process by which an administrative agency issues an affirmative, negative, injunctive, or declaratory order.

Question 2

administrative discretion

Answer 2

In public administration, administrative discretion refers to the flexible exercising of judgment and decision making allowed to public administrators.

Question 3

Cabinet departments

Answer 3

President Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet includes Vice President Mike Pence and the heads of the 15 executive departments – the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury

Question 4

civil service system

Answer 4

those branches of public service concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services. the body of persons employed in these branches. a system or method of appointing government employees on the basis of competitive examinations, rather than by political patronage.

Question 5

Department of Homeland Security

Answer 5

The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the U.S. federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.

Question 6

federal bureaucracy

Answer 6

The federal bureaucracy performs three primary tasks in government: implementation, administration, and regulation. When Congress passes a law, it sets down guidelines to carry out the new policies. Actually putting these policies into practice is known as implementation.

Question 7

federal register

Answer 7

The Federal Register is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published daily, except on federal holidays.

Question 8

government corporations

Answer 8

A government corporation is a company that is owned by the government and operates with the same independence of a private business, except that the owner is the government

Question 9

G.I. Bill

Answer 9

The GI Bill provides educational assistance to service members, veterans, and their dependents.

Question 10

Great Depression

Answer 10

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s.

Question 11

Great Society

Answer 11

a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

Question 12

Hatch Act

Answer 12

The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials,[1] from engaging in some forms of political activity.

Question 13

implementation

Answer 13

the process of putting a decision or plan into effect; execution.

Question 14

independent executive agencies

Answer 14

Independent agencies of the United States federal government are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. … These agency rules (or regulations), when in force, have the power of federal law.

Question 15

independent regulatory commission

Answer 15

A regulatory agency is a public authority or government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity. An independent regulatory agency is a regulatory agency that is independent from other branches or arms of the government.

Question 16

interagency councils

Answer 16

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is an independent federal agency within the U.S. executive branch that leads the implementation of the federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. USICH is advised by a Council, which includes the heads of its 20 federal member agencies.

Question 17

iron triangles

Answer 17

In United States politics, the “iron triangle” comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups, as described in 1981 by Gordon Adams.

Question 18

issue networks

Answer 18

Issue networks are an alliance of various interest groups and individuals who unite in order to promote a common cause or agenda in a way that influences government policy. Issue networks can be either domestic or international in scope depending on their collective goal

Question 19

Max Weber

Answer 19

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist. His ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology.

Question 20

merit system

Answer 20

The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections. It is the opposite of the spoils system.

Question 21

patronage

Answer 21

the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges.

Question 22

Pendleton Act

Answer 22

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.

Question 23

policy coordinating committees

Answer 23

policy coordinating committees. Subcabinet-level committees created to facilitate interactions between agencies and departments to handle complex policy problems. administrative discretion. The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions.

Question 24

regulations

Answer 24

Regulation is an abstract concept of management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context.

Question 25

rule making

Answer 25

In administrative law, rule-making is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations. In general, legislatures first set broad policy mandates by passing statutes, then agencies create more detailed regulations through rulemaking.

Question 26

Sixteenth Amendment

Answer 26

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Question 27

spoils system

Answer 27

the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.

Question 28

World War I

Answer 28

World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

Question 29

World War II

Answer 29

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world’s countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.