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E. None of the above is true

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The Plan B drug is

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A. Rejected applications to make Plan B available without presecription

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During its 2009-2012 term, the Obama administration

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D. Bureaucracy

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A large, complex organization in which employees have specific job responsibilities and work within a hierarchy of authority is a(n)

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E. All the above are true

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Organizations can be chiefly defined by their

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A. Still play a central role

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In the governments of modern societies, bureaucracies

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C. Centralization and rigorous procedure

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The success of the British with respect to defending their ships from U-boats was based on

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B. Has one of the smallest governments among Western democracies

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As measured by comparing United States government expenditures as a proportion of all economic activity, the United States

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A. A laissez-faire approach does not always result in competitive markets

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Government regulation of business grew in response to the realization that

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C. They offer more welfare and social services

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One of the reasons why bureaucracies are much larger in other countries is that

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B. The Civil War

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The government began to take steps to provide some income security in the wake of

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B. 1930s

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Social Security was instituted by the government in the

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E. Options A and D are true

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In response to the constant cry for reduction in the size of bureaucracy, the government typically

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E. 9/11 attacks

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The Department of Homeland Security was formed in response to the

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E. Ronald Reagan

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Which president aimed to abolish the Department of Education?

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E. Enlarge

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For the most part George W. Bush worked to _______ the size of the government

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B. Barack Obama

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__________ created new bureaucracies to administer new programs for health care and oversight of the financial services industry

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E. Finland

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Which of the following EU countries did not fall into catastrophic levels of debt by the early 2010s?

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D. Euro

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The common currency for most European Union countries is called the

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E. Departments; secretaries

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The biggest units of the executive branch are termed ________ and are headed by _______

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A. Independent agency

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The CIA is a good example of a federal

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B. To prevent tie votes

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Regulatory commissions are usually run with an odd number of commissioners

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C. By congressional law

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New cabinet departments or agencies can be created

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D. Government agencies that provide services that could be provided by the private sector

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Government corporations are best described as

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E. Private industry cannot profitably provide the service

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Government corporations are most likely to be created when a service is for the public good and

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D. Government corporations

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The U.S. Postal Service and Amtrak are examples of

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C. Fifteen

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There are currently ______ cabinet departments

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A. Security

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The larger governmental departments tend to focus on the nations

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A. 2

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The national bureaucracy us staffed by nearly 2.8 million civilian employees, who account for less than _____ percent of the U.S work force

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C. Mentally unbalanced job seeker

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The civil service was created after President Garfield was assassinated by a(n)

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E. Reduce patronage by creating a civil service

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The purpose of the Pendleton Act of 1883 was to

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D. Reduce the amount of politics in awarding government jobs

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The civil service system was created to

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A. Merit-based, nonpolitical employment and promotion

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The central feature of the civil service system is

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B. Veterans Affairs

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Which of the following departments has the highest number of civilian employees?

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C. Less than 1 percent

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A president can appoint only three thousand people to jobs in their administration, which represent _____ of all executive branch employees

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D. U.S. Senate confirmaiton

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Presidential appointees in the executive branch fill the top policymaking positions in government, and some 1000 of them require

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B. Businesses, universities, and government itself

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Most political appointees come from

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A. Pluralist pressures may pull the agency in a direction other than that favored by the president

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The bureaucracy may not be fully responsive to a presidents wishes because

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A. Pay and benefits compare favorably to the private sector, especially for lower skill jobs

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One appealing strength of government sector work is that

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D. Options A, B, and C are true

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Committees can "punish" an agency by

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E. Options A and B are true

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Presidents can exert considerable influence over agency policymaking by

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A. A congressional grant of authority

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The legal powers of bureaucratic agencies derive from

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A. Regulations

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Rules that guide the operation of government programs are termed

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A. The broadest range of

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Congress has a tendency to grant ______ discretion to those agencies involved in domestic and global security

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C. No more than three hours

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After an ExpressJet flight kept 47 passengers on board an aircraft overnight in Rochester, New York, the Department of Transportation announced a new set of rules limiting tarmac waits to

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D. Options A and B are true

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The airline industry claimed that the new Department of Transportation rules limiting passenger tarmac waits on a plane would

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E. Worked well, reducing tarmac strandings from 664 to just 16 instances

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The 2009 regulations by the Department of Transportation on the airline industry

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D. Options A, B, and C are true

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The ideal, rational decision-making process

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D. Options A, B, and C are true

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The rational-comprehensive model of policymaking is unrealistic because

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E. The "right" policy is politically unacceptable

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Often, the theoretically correct, or rational, policy is not enacted because

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C. Incrementalism

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According to Charles Lindblom, policymaking tends to be characterized by ______, with policies and programs changing bit by bit, step by step

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C. School administrators dont have enough money to provide services to all qualifying students

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In implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), school administrators frequently offer families fewer services than the law calls for because

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A. "The book" consists of the laws they are obligated to enforce

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Bureaucrats "go by the book" because

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B. Of a violation of child labor laws

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Tommy McCoy, a bat-boy for a baseball team, came under some scrutiny because

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C. CIA bureaucrats believed the CIA needed to do whatever it takes to protect the United States

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When Leon Panetta became head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2009 he faced a difficult task in trying to change the agency mindset because

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E. After policies are implemented, they must still undergo the development stage

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Implementation of policies is often difficult because of all but which of the following reasons?

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C. Concervatives

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In recent years the philosophy of deregulation has been especially championed by

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C. Thalidomide

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The thorough and lengthy process the FDA uses to evaluate drugs was validated by the controversy involving

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A. Began to issue regulations at a faster rate that George W. Bush's agencies

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Upon taking office Barack Obamas regulatory agencies

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A. The Government Performance and Results Act

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Which act held agencies accountable for their performance?

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D. States were allowed to set their own standards for what constituted acceptable student performance

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One significant difficulty with the initial No Child Left Behind law was that

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