Exam IV Online Questions Chapter 15 and holding hearings 1 Congress tries to control the bureaucracy through rewriting laws and budgets 2 Creating new agencies developing guidelines and coordinating resources to achieve a policy goal is called implementation 3 Deregulation is responsible at least in part for each of the following EXCEPT the proliferation of government agencies 4 Government corporations typically charge for their services at reduced rates 5 Patronage is a hiring and promotion system based on knowing the right people 6 Presidents try to control the bureaucracy through executive orders and the power of appointment 7 Studies have found that most Americans are satisfied with the help received by bureaucrats 8 The authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem is called administrative discretion 9 The deterioration of the national parks is primarily a bureaucratic problem of lack of adequate resources 10 The diffusion of responsibility within the bureaucracy makes the coordination of policies both time consuming and difficult 11 The main job of bureaucrats is to implement manage and regulate government policies 12 The main obstacle to the successful implementation of the policy prohibiting sex discrimination in intercollegiate athletics was the lack of clarity and vague policy goals started in Title XI 13 The most controversial role of the bureaucracies is regulation 14 The parts of the federal bureaucracy with responsibility for making and enforcing rules designed to protect the public interest are the independent regulatory agencies 15 The plum book lists top federal jobs available by presidential appointment 16 The rationale for the civil service rests on the desire to create a nonpartisan government service with promotion on the basis of merit 17 The Supreme Court case of Munn v Illinois 1877 upheld the right of government to regulate the business operations of a firm 18 To a great extent the ability of bureaucracies to respond to and represent the public s interests depends on whether bureaucracies are effectively controlled by the policymakers that citizens elect 19 When Congress passes regulatory legislation for which it has established goals it then grants power to regulatory agencies to develop guidelines and enforce compliance Chapter 16 1 A per curium decision is a decision without explanation 2 Advocates of judicial activism emphasize that the courts may alleviate pressing needs left unmet by the majoritarian political process 3 An amicus curiae brief may be submitted by groups that are interested in the outcome of a case but are not formal litigants 4 An opinion written to stress a different constitutional or legal basis for the judgment is called a concurring opinion 5 Cases that involve statutory construction can be overturned by Congress by clarifying an existing law 6 Court decisions depend on other institutions of government for enforcement 7 Courts with appellate jurisdiction review the legal issues involved in a case 8 In the shift from the Warren Court to the Burger Court the Supreme Court became more conservative 9 One constraint on federal courts is that they may decide only justiciable disputes 10 One of the differences between criminal law and civil law is that in civil law there is no charge that a law has been violated 11 One of the most important factors that brings potential federal judges to the attention of senators and the Department of Justice is their involvement in partisan politics 12 Principle reasons for the Court s choosing to hear a case would include each of the following EXCEPT politically hot and divisive cases 13 Supreme Court justices often try to time their retirement so that a president with compatible views will choose their successor 14 Supreme Court nominations are likely to run into trouble when the nomination is made at the end of a president s term 15 The case of Marbury v Madison 1803 established the Supreme Court s power of judicial review 16 The litigant who brings charges against an individual corporation or government in a civil or criminal court case is called the plaintiff 17 The most important factors influencing the selection of judges and justices appear to be ideology and partisanship 18 The U S Supreme Court s jurisdiction includes appellate jurisdiction from both 19 When given a choice the courts are least likely to decide a case on the basis of 20 Which of the following plays the greatest role in the selection of Supreme Court state and federal courts the Constitution justices The President Chapter 17 1 According to monetarists too much money and credit leads to inflation 2 Americans have always been suspicious of concentrated economic power 3 An example of Keynesian economic policy is creating government jobs to ease unemployment 4 Antitrust policy is implemented by the Justice Department 5 In America solutions to many of the problems of a free enterprise economy have been achieved through the democratic process 6 7 In the 1980s corporate capitalism was characterized by increased number of mergers James Madison and Karl Marx had in common a belief in economic conflict as the root of politics 8 One of the most recent antitrust suits resulted in the breakup of American Telephone Telegraph AT T 9 Our capitalist system presents a restraint on controlling the economy because big business dominates economic policy making 10 Our key measure of inflation is called the Consumer Price Index CPI 11 Perhaps the biggest change in economic policy making over the past century has been the virtual 180 degree turn in public policy toward labor unions 12 The agency that became a zealous defender of consumer interests in truth and advertising in the 1960s and 1970s was the Federal Trade Commission 13 The coalition behind the Republican Party is most likely to be concerned with inflation 14 The financial dealings of the Federal Reserve Board directly or indirectly affect interest rates inflation availability of jobs 15 The first major consumer protection policy was the Food and Drug Act 16 The impact of the federal budget taxes spending and borrowing on the economy describes fiscal policy 17 The National Labor Relations Act guaranteed the right of collective bargaining 18 The official unemployment rate underestimates unemployment because it leaves out discouraged workers 19 The Taft Hartley Act continued to guarantee unions the right of collective bargaining gave the president a
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