FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV CHAPTER 15

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV CHAPTER 15

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Question 1: Senior Executive Service

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An elite cadre of about 9,000 federal government managers, established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, who are mostly career officials but include some political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation

Question 2: Office of Personnel Management

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The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process

Question 3: Regulation

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The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector. These pervade the daily lives of people and institutions

Question 4: Command and control policy

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According to Charles Schultze, the typical system of regulation whereby government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that these commands are followed, and punishes offenders

Question 5: Street-level bureaucrats

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A phrase coined by Michael Lipsky, referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion

Question 6: Independent regulatory commission

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A government agency responsible for some sector of the economy, making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest. It also judges disputes over these rules

Question 7: Hatch Act

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A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics

Question 8: Policy implementation

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The stage of policymaking between the establishment of a policy and the consequences of the policy for the people whom it affects. Implementation involves translating the goals and objectives of a policy into an operating, ongoing program

Question 9: Iron triangles

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A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees.These dominate some areas of domestic policymaking

Question 10: Administrative discretion

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The authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem. Discretion is greatest when routines, or standard operating procedures, do not fit a case

Question 11: Independent executive agency

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The government not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, and government corporations. Its administrators are typically appointed by the president and serve at the president's pleasure. NASA is an example.

Question 12: Incentive system

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According to Charles Schultze, a more effective and efficient policy than command-and-control; in the incentive system, marketlike strategies are used to manage public policy

Question 13: Standard operating procedures

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Better known as SOPs, these procedures are used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations. Uniformity improves fairness and makes personnel interchangeable

Question 14: Merit principle

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The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill

Question 15: Bureaucracy

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According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality. Bureaucracies govern modern states.

Question 16: General Schedule (GS) rating

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A schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience

Question 17: Deregulation

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The lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities for which government rules had been established and that bureaucracies had been created to administer

Question 18: Pendleton Civil Service Act

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Passed in 1883, an Act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage

Question 19: Executive orders

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Regulations originating from the executive branch.These are one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy

Question 20: Government corporations

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A government organization that, like business corporations, provides a service that could be provided by the private sector and typically changes for its services. The U.S. Postal Service is an example

Question 21: Patronage

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One of the key inducements used by political machines. A patronage job, promotion, or contract is one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone.

Question 22: Civil service

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A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service