A) State.
B) Defense.
C) Labor.
D) Health and Human Services.
E) Education.
G) C) and D)
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A) regulatory agency.
B) cabinet department.
C) presidential commission.
D) government corporation.
E) blue ribbon panel.
G) B) and E)
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A) carrying out decisions made by Congress,the president,and the courts.
B) regulating the distribution of funds to individuals and corporations.
C) delegating legislative authority to smaller operating units of the bureaucracy.
D) both regulating the distribution of funds to individuals and corporations,and delegating legislative authority to smaller operating units of the bureaucracy.
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) A) and B)
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A) It has a more narrow area of responsibility than that of cabinet departments.
B) Its head is appointed by an independent commission.
C) It is divided into a number of smaller operating units.
D) It exists independently of cabinet departments.
E) Its head is appointed by the president.
G) A) and B)
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A) It is reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget.
B) It has reached its final approval and is implemented.
C) It is sent to the president to sign or veto.
D) It is given to the president for any further executive changes to be added.
E) It is referred to the House and Senate appropriations committees for implementation.
G) C) and D)
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A) the Department of Defense
B) the Central Intelligence Agency
C) the Environmental Protection Agency
D) the Department of Agriculture
E) the Federal Trade Commission
G) B) and E)
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A) their specialized knowledge.
B) the backing of the president and Congress.
C) the support of clientele groups.
D) all of these: their expert knowledge; the backing of the president and Congress; and the support of clientele groups.
E) None of these answers is correct.
G) B) and C)
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A) natural sciences and engineering.
B) law.
C) social sciences and the humanities.
D) business management.
E) journalism.
G) A) and C)
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A) teams appointed by Congress to propose budget cuts to the federal bureaucracy
B) groups of executive officials that were under the influence of "agency capture"
C) Congressional committees designed to find ways to reduce the size of the national bureaucracy
D) teams that were formed under the National Performance Review to analyze and make recommendations about bureaucratic effectiveness
E) teams appointed by Congress to decide which branches of the federal bureaucracy could be eliminated
G) B) and E)
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A) Social Security System.
B) Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
C) Department of Agriculture.
D) drug education program administered by Health and Human Services.
E) U.S.Postal Service.
G) B) and D)
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A) allows the president to appoint top officials of executive agencies,thus making the bureaucracy more responsive to election outcomes.
B) provides for presidential leadership of the bureaucracy,thus giving it greater coordination and direction.
C) provides for a neutral administration in the sense that civil servants are not partisan appointees,thus ensuring evenhanded work.
D) provides that all programs will be evaluated regularly to determine whether they merit continued funding.
E) All these answers are correct.
G) A) and E)
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A) preserving forests for recreation,and protecting endangered species
B) preserving forests in response to environmental concerns,and coordinating with the National Park Service for creating park lands
C) serving both the interests of lumber sellers and mining interests
D) opening up forests both for logging and in response to energy concerns
E) preserving forests for environmental reasons,and opening them up for logging
G) C) and E)
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A) Health and Human Services
B) State
C) Labor
D) Homeland Security
E) Agriculture
G) A) and B)
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A) clientele groups.
B) pressure groups.
C) entitlement groups.
D) programmatic groups.
E) recipient groups.
G) C) and D)
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A) is composed of civil employees that can be fired more easily than normal career civil servants.
B) was designed to combat abuse of the patronage system.
C) is composed of civil employees that can be assigned by the president to any position within the bureaucracy.
D) has been more successful in practice than its proponents anticipated.
E) assigns most of its senior executives to work within a different agency than the one in which they originally worked.
G) B) and E)
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