pols 021 - final exam
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- the chief of staff
- oversees operations of all white house staffa dn controls access to the president
- the vice president's only major constitutional power is to...
- preside of the senate
- meeting and greeting foreign dignitaries is an example of which presidential role?
- head of state
- the constitution created a limited presidency because the founders...
- feared a strong executive due to their experience under british rule
- when a president exercises his chief administrator role, he can be compared to...
- the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company
- according to the text, Congress...
- is rarely able to override a repisdential veto
- compared to the modern president, the president envisioned by the framers was...
- less powerful
- the presdient's policy goals usually conflict with congress, because the president
- must take a wider view of the national interest than congress
- when divided government exists...
- a presidents generally have less success than during period of unified government
- white house staff and the president's cabinet often conflict because
- staff serve the president's interest, while cabinet members serve the inters of constituencies
- the presidents role as head of ___ refers to his administration of daily political matters
- government
- in his role as ___ the president acts as the civilian head of the military
- commander-in-chief
- modern presidents use their annual ___ to presdent their legislative agenda to congress
- state of the union address
- an executive ___ is a clarification of congressional policy issued by the president and having the full force of law
- order
- the controls access to the president
- chief of staff
- a hierarchical structure, worker specialization, explicit rules, and merit based advancement are characteristics of
- the traditional model of bureaucracy
- a clear chain of command with all employees knowing hwo their supervisors are as well as whom they are responsible for is an example of...
- a hierarchy
- the 19th century arrangement in which executives were given wide latitude to hire friends and political supporters to work in their administration is called...
- the spoils system
- the practice in which stressful party candidates reward supporters with jobs or favors is known as...
- patronage
- bureaucratic accountability refers to
- the principle that bureaucratic employees should be answeable to suprervisors, all the way up the chain of command
- the term "red tape" refers to...
- the complex procedures surrounding bureaucratic activity
- the bulk of the federal bureaucracy is...
- found in the executive branch
- the 15 departments that make up the major subdivisions of the federal government also represent...
- the presidents cabinet
- of the 1.8 million civilian employees of the U.S civil service, the president appoints about ____ employees
- 3,000
- the term "iron triangles" refers to the
- phenomenon of members of interest groups, congressional committees, and bureaucratic agencies cooperating for mutual benefit
- congress exercises its control over bureaucracies through
- a committee and subcommittee actions, rather than through votes of congress as a whole
- bureaucracies are found in...
- both the public and private sectors
- the purpose of explicit bureaucratic rules is to ensure that
- all people who interact w/ the bureaucracy are treated int he same fashion
- because bureaucracies are so rule-based, they...
- make decisions w/ accountability and fairness but also with a lot of red tape
- when political bureaucratic appointees conflict with career civil servants,
- political appointees have the advantage of a higher poistion of authority, but civil servants can stall to slowly kill policy changes