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    As bureaucrats begin to identify with their jobs, ______.

    they internalize the idea that what is good for their agency is good for them

    President Obama's appointments to the bureaucracy differed from President George W. Bush's appointments in that ______.

    President Obama's appointments were more likely to be made on the basis of policy expertise

    The goal of the Pendleton Act and the Hatch Act was to ______.

    reduce political influence over federal government employees

    Which of the following is an example of a government agency designed to serve a distinct clientele group?

    - Defense
    - Justice
    --> Agriculture <--
    - Homeland Security
    - State

    The Department of Justice enforces the laws and represents the American government before the U.S. Supreme Court. Therefore, it was created to ______.

    to serve an essential government function

    Bureaucracy is preferable to democracy in making decisions when ______.

    we require expertise and dispatch

    According to the textbook, bureaucracies are often the only meeting ground for citizens and politics because they ______.

    are often the only contact citizens have with government

    According to the textbook, life within the bureaucracy is ______.

    as political as life inside

    Barbour and Wright argue that commitment to a particular set of policy goals is a common element of the culture inside ______.

    bureaucratic agencies

    The bureaucratic culture includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

    - identification with the agency by which the worker is employed

    --> a firm commitment to using plain, easy-to-understand language <--

    - the development of specialization and expertise in the subject matter of the agency

    - commitment to the policy issue of the agency by which the worker is employed

    - adoption of bureaucratic behavior appropriate for the agency

    The courts generally play a modest role in controlling the bureaucracy for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ______.

    --> The Constitution does not permit the courts to rule on executive branch decisions. <--

    - The courts do not have the time to review the thousands of decisions made by the bureaucracy.

    - Congress puts the decisions of some agencies beyond the reach of the courts.

    - The courts tend to defer to the expertise of the bureaucrats.

    - The courts tend to defer to the bureaucracy unless a clear principle of law is violated.

    Americans expect that their bureaucrats will enforce laws according to the principle of ______.

    neutral competence

    The Privacy Act of 1974 ______.

    gives citizens access to records that government agencies have on them

    The practice in which successful party candidates reward supporters with jobs or favors is known as ______.

    patronage

    Because presidents and their appointees often struggle with entrenched bureaucracies, presidents ______.

    often prefer to start new agencies rather than deal with the old ones

    Iron triangles accurately depict the relationships among congressional committees, interest groups, and bureaucratic agencies, but the full range of politics is best seen when one looks at ______.

    issue networks

    Bureaucrats processing the paperwork for applications for Social Security benefits would be an example of the bureaucracy acting as a(n) ______.

    administrator

    All of the following statements concerning the formation of the federal bureaucracy are true EXCEPT ______.

    --> The greatest period of growth of the bureaucracy was in the 1800s. <--

    - Some of the agencies were created in response to changing national needs.

    - Some of the agencies were created to serve essential government functions.

    - Some of the agencies were created in response to the demands of clientele groups.

    - It was created piecemeal over time

    Congress sets up most regulatory agencies as boards or commissions, with members having fixed terms, in order to ______.

    make them independent of political pressure, particularly from the president

    The ultimate purpose of depoliticizing government bureaucracies is to create ______.

    neutral competence

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