Final

Question 1

How do Highest Ranking bureaucrats get their jobs?

Answer 1

Patronage - Government job via appointment

Question 2

How do rank and file bureaucrats get their jobs?

Answer 2

They obtain their jobs via the office of personnel management (OPM).

Question 3

Spoils System

Answer 3

Government job based on political connections

Question 4

Iron Triangles

Answer 4

A three way alliance among legislators, bureaucrats, and interest groups.

Question 5

Issue Networks

Answer 5

Less structured than iron triangles and less interdependent but often involve more players

Question 6

Iron triangle members

Answer 6

Legislators, bureaucrats, and interest groups

Question 7

Issue Network members

Answer 7

Legislative staff members, interest group leaders, bureaucrats, the media, and scholars. known as “experts”

Question 8

Think Tank

Answer 8

Corporate funded group of experts

Question 9

Whistleblowers

Answer 9

federal employees who report on gross government inefficiency, illegal activities, or other wrongdoing.

Question 10

Chief Performance officer

Answer 10

Reports directly to the president and works with other economic officials in an attempt to increase efficiency and eliminate waste in government

Question 11

Privatization

Answer 11

Which means turning over certain types of government work to the private sector.

Question 12

Neutral Competency

Answer 12

The application of technical skills to their jobs without regard to political issues.

Question 13

Rulemaking

Answer 13

Rules based on substantial evidence and are not arbitratoy or capricious.

Question 14

Sunshine laws

Answer 14

require government meetings to be open to the public, have been enacted at all levels of government

Question 15

Internet

Answer 15

Government agencies have attempted to improve their effectiveness and efficiency by making use of the internet.

Question 16

Bureaucracy

Answer 16

A large complex administrative organization that is structured hierarchically in a pyramid like fashion.

Question 17

Specialization

Answer 17

A bureaucratic form of organization allows each person to concentrate on his or her area of knowledge and expertise.

Question 18

Executive departments

Answer 18

State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportations, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security.

Question 19

Common Law

Answer 19

A body of general rules - from the principles underlying judges decision in actual controversies.

Question 20

Stare Decisis

Answer 20

The practice of deciding new cases with reference to former decisions

Question 21

Constitutional Law

Answer 21

Consists of the rights and duties set forth in the federal and state constitutions

Question 22

Statutory Law

Answer 22

Refers to the body of law enacted by legislatures

Question 23

Administrative Law

Answer 23

Consists of the rules, orders, and decisions of administrative agencies.

Question 24

Case Law

Answer 24

Consists of the rules of law announced in court decisions

Question 25

Civil Law

Answer 25

Spells out the duties that individuals in society owe to other persons or to their governments, excluding the duty not to commit crimes

Question 26

Criminal Law

Answer 26

Has to do with wrongs committed against the public as a whole.

Question 27

Jurisdiction

Answer 27

The power to "speak the law" is the authority of a court to hear and decide a particular case

Question 28

Standing to sue

Answer 28

sufficient "stake" in the matter, meaning they must have suffered a harm or been threatened with a harm by the action at issue. And the issue must be justicable.

Question 29

Justiciable Controversy

Answer 29

is one that is real and substantial, as opposed to hypothetical or academic.

Question 30

Original jurisdiction

Answer 30

considered questions of fact

Question 31

Federal Trial Courts

Answer 31

These are the courts in which cases involving federal law begin.

Question 32

Number of Judicial districts

Answer 32

94

Question 33

Three courts of the Federal Court System

Answer 33

U.S. District Courts U.S. Courts of Appeals U.S. Supreme Court

Question 34

Appellate courts

Answer 34

A panel of three judges who do not hear evidence or testimony, rather they review the transcript of the trial courts proceedings and attorneys arguments as to why the trial courts decision should or should not stand.

Question 35

U.S. Supreme Court

Answer 35

Only court created in Article 3 of the Constitution. Congress empowered to create additional "inferior" courts as it deems necessary. Consists of 9 justices.

Question 36

Writ of certiorari

Answer 36

an order that the supreme court issues to a lower court requesting the latter to send it the record of the case in question. The court will not issue a writ unless at least 4 of the justices approve.

Question 37

Justices Opinions in supreme court

Answer 37

The courts decision in a particular case is based on the written record of the case and the written arguments that the attorneys submit. Majority writes opinion on case and others may write concurring or dissenting opinions.

Question 38

Borking

Answer 38

A special interest group attempting to block Supreme Court nominee

Question 39

Judicial review

Answer 39

federal judiciary can exercise a check on the actions of either of the other branches

Question 40

Significance of Marbury v. Madison

Answer 40

Resulted in the Supreme court establishing its function for judicial review as well as ordering the writ of mandamus meaning "we order" or "we demand"

Question 41

Four stages of Policymaking process

Answer 41

1 Issue Identification and Agenda Setting 2 Policy Formulation and Adoption 3 Policy Implementation 4 Policy Evaluation

Question 42

Controversy around Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Answer 42

Allegedly ignored the will of the people Started with considerable support but by 2010 had lost much of its support. Senate passed the bill without changes to avoid a second committee and there have been allegations that the reform legislation was unconstitutional.

Question 43

Departments involved in foreign policy

Answer 43

Department of State Department of Defense National Security Council Central Intelligence Agency

Question 44

Important Eras in US Foreign Policy

Answer 44

The World Wars | The Cold War

Question 45

Four components of bureaucracy

Answer 45

Executive Departments Independent Executive Agencies Independent Regulatory Agencies Government Corporations