The Bureaucracy

Question 1

Appropriations

Answer 1

Distribution of money defined in one time allotment of funds or an recurring annual allotment. Each house and full chamber must approve the spending for funds to be allowed these appropriations are made annually as part of federal budget

Question 2

Civil service commission

Answer 2

To oversee the process and prevent officers from requiring federal employees to contribute to political campaigns

Question 3

Civil service reform act

Answer 3

Altered how a bureaucrat is dismissed,limited preference for veterans in hope of balancing the genders in federal employment and put upper level appointments back into president control

Question 4

Competitive service

Answer 4

Includes those merit based jobs that require some type of exam or competitive hiring process

Question 5

Compliance monitoring

Answer 5

Making sure that the firms and companies that are subject to industry regulation are following Those standards and provision

Question 6

Discretionary author

Answer 6

Congress granted departments, agencies, bureau and commission staffed with experts in their field varying degrees of discretion in developing relies and interpreting legislation

Question 7

Excepted service

Answer 7

Including no test jobs providing hiring options when the competitive service is not practical

Question 8

FBI

Answer 8

Deals with immigration violations national banking and antitrust violation, interstate crimes transportation of stole property bank robbery and fraudulent crimes

Question 9

Freedom of information act

Answer 9

Gives the public the right to request access to records and information

Question 10

Hatch act

Answer 10

Prohibit federal workers from becoming directly involved in federal political campaigns

Question 11

Iron triangle

Answer 11

An agency
A congressional committee
Interest group
Committee members pay attention to interest groups to get funded bureaucrats cooperate with congress who fund them for

Question 12

Issue network

Answer 12

Experts advocates and interest groups and members of media collaborate to create specific policy on one issue
A lot for free than iron triangle due to no interaction with Congress

Question 13

Legislature veto

Answer 13

A requirement that certain agency decisions must wait for a defined period due to supreme case of chadha the court ruled the veto was for the president not the legislature branch

Question 14

Merit system

Answer 14

Competitive written exams for many job application

Question 15

National performance review

Answer 15

Organize to identify problems and offer solution and idea for governmental saving

Question 16

Office of information and regulatory affairs

Answer 16

All regulations that effect public heath effort on economy must under go close review

Question 17

Office of personal management

Answer 17

The federal workforce is diverse and demographic are similar to that of the over all labor force
14% more men than women
Largest population of black from minority workers
9% have disabilities

Question 18

Patronage

Answer 18

Place a reward loyal party leaders with federal jobs

No expert required

Question 19

Pendleton’s civil service act

Answer 19

Prevent the constant rewards to loyal party members

Question 20

Red tape

Answer 20

Vast amount of paper work, produces, forms and formal steps citizen must take to accomplish a governmental mandate task

Question 21

Senior executives service

Answer 21

System that placed emphasis on a bureaucrats skills and experience on a job

Question 22

Spoils system

Answer 22

Patronage act became this

Question 23

Sunshine act

Answer 23

Requires most federal agencies to be hold in a public accessible places

Question 24

Whistlerblower protection act

Answer 24

Protects federal workers who report or disclose evidence of illegal or improper governmental actions