Exam 8: The Bureaucracy

A) Concerted oversight efforts by Congress can reduce the dangers of agency loss.
B) A strong president can overcome the tendency of bureaucracies to engage in hidden action.
C) Implementing a system of tenure review for bureaucrats has improved responsiveness.
D) The greatest vulnerability of the principals to the agents is an asymmetry in information.

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A) the agents monitor on Congress's behalf
B) the agents monitor to avoid bureaucratic oversight by Congress
C) the agents monitor to ensure the agents of foreign governments abide by state regulations
D) the agents monitor simply for the purposes of hiring and firing employees within the agencies

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A) control of committees in Congress
B) a case-by-case treatment of issues with standards that vary from person to person
C) reducing transaction costs and agency losses
D) a lessening of red tape

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A) Most government programs are financial, so recipients simply receive a check from the government.
B) Innovation and technology have made government employees much more efficient.
C) Through delegation of administrative duties to state and local government agencies, Congress can add programs, which voters like, without increasing the federal bureaucracy, which voters do not like.
D) It means that the amount of federal spending is wasted on duplicate programs and corruption is rampant within federal programs without effective oversight.

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A) There is no way to ensure the hiring of competent individuals knowledgeable about government programs.
B) The political parties can exercise undue influence over bureaucrats because of budgetary needs.
C) The rules designed to protect career bureaucrats from political retaliation make it difficult to punish them for shirking or incompetence.
D) The high levels of turnover hinder the effective implementation of public policies because of a lack of institutional memory concerning best practices.

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A) not very clearly although they gave the President appointment power but left it to Congress to establish executive departments and determine how they would be staffed
B) ignored the issue entirely since they believed that the federal government would carry out a few, well-defined tasks relating to diplomacy and national security
C) in tremendous detail as they specified the creation of specific agencies and defined the powers of those agencies in Article VIII
D) not very clearly, but they did believe that the President should have absolute control over officials serving in the executive branch

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A) rotation in office
B) political graft
C) spoils system
D) merit system

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A) is biased in favor of the government since the courts defer to the expertise of the federal government
B) has only focused on the rules of the agencies and avoided any questions about whether agencies were authorized to issue regulations
C) has interpreted the Administrative Procedures Act in such a way that requires almost as much care in making rules as deciding cases
D) is largely nonexistent because the Supreme Court regards rule-making as a political question outside of its purview

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A) He advocated a one-term limit on all elected positions.
B) He appointed only nonlawyers to the judiciary.
C) He advocated rotation in office.
D) He sold administrative appointments to the highest bidders at public auctions.

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A) the fact that Congress is fairly lax about engaging in oversight in many areas of public policy
B) keeping the costs they impose on everyone small enough to avoid attracting serious attention from political entrepreneurs in Congress or the White House who may be scouting for popular issues to champion
C) keeping the benefits they provide generous enough to avoid attracting the scouting of political entrepreneurs in Congress or the White House who may be scouting for programs to cut
D) the fact that most Americans do not care about the government as long as they receive their benefits in a timely manner

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