Question 1

What were the "reinventing teams"?

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Question 2

The Senior Executive Service (SES)

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Question 3

How has the Government Accountability Office's role changed?

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Question 4

Legally, the bureaucracy derives general authority for its programs from

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Question 5

Identify four of the five major types of organizations within the federal bureaucracy, and give examples of each.

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Question 6

About three in every five managerial and professional positions in the federal bureaucracy are held by

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Question 7

Which group saw the LARGEST percentage increase of GS 13-15 jobs between 1982 and 2011?

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Question 8

In terms of holding the bureaucracy accountable, the MOST important unit within the Executive Office of the President is the

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Question 9

Discuss the historical process by which the federal bureaucracy grew from its original size to its present size.

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Question 10

The president can hire about _____ full-time partisan employees to help him or her implement the presidential agenda.

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Question 11

Congress oversees the bureaucracy by using

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Question 12

Studies have found that the U.S. federal bureaucracy

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Question 13

The typical presidential appointee spends about ____________ on the job before leaving for other employment.

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Question 14

The Senior Executive Service was established in ____ and consists of about _____ career civil servants.

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Question 15

When an individual believes that he or she was improperly disadvantaged by a bureaucrat's decision and contests the decision, the dispute is usually handled by

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Question 16

Which of the following is true of the federal government's demographic representativeness?

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Question 17

The courts have tended to support administrators as long as their agencies

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Question 18

The National Performance Review addressed which of the following issues about the bureaucracy?

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Question 19

Which of the following was the most recent broad initiative aimed at making the bureaucracy more responsive?

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Question 20

An administrative law judge

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Quiz 13: The Federal Bureaucracy: Administering the Government