Exam IV – Online QuestionsChapter 151. Congress tries to control the bureaucracy through rewriting laws and budgets and holding hearings.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 theproliferation 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 ofpolicies 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 policygoals 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 enforcingrules 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 161. 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 thereis 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 governmentin 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 state and federal courts.19. When given a choice, the courts are least likely to decide a case on the basis of the Constitution.20. Which of the following plays the greatest role in the selection of Supreme Court justices? The President.Chapter 171. 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. In the 1980s, corporate capitalism was characterized by increased number ofmergers.7. 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 withinflation.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.
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