Chapter 9 10 Jeopardy Template

Definitions	Acronyms	Departments	Lists	True or False
100 Bureaucracy This is a term referring to a large, complex organization of appointed officials	100 Office of Personnel Management OPM	100 Hierarchy What is the chain of command in which authority follows from the top down?	100 Tennessee Valley Authority, Amtrak, Postal Service, etc. List two examples of government corporations.	100 True Executive orders have the force of law
200 Pendleton Cvil Service Act This act created the federal civil service system in 1883	200 Interstate Commerce Commission ICC	200 Department of Treasury Which cabinet department has authority over the printing of currency?	200 NASA, FBI, EPA, etc. List two examples of independent executive agencies.	200 True Congress has the sole power of appropriation of funds to an agency
300 Regulation This term refers to the use of governmental authority to control or change practices in the private sector	300 Securities and Exchange Commission SEC	300 Cabinet Departments To whom are the cabinet secretaries are more loyal, the president or their cabinet departments?	300 Exercising budgetary control by setting aside funds for each agency, holding hearings and conducting investigations, reorganizing an agency, setting new guidelines for an agency, spreading out responsibilities in order to prevent any one agency from becom List two methods Congress uses to oversee the federal bureaucracy.	300 False Agency heads are more loyal to the president than to their agency
400 Iron Triangle This is a term where the interaction among an administrative agency, an interest group, and a congressional committee helps create policy	400 National Labor Relations Board NLRB	400 Department of Justice Which cabinet department is headed by the attorney general?	400 Setting bank interest rates, controlling inflation, regulating the money supply, adjusting bank reserve requirements What are two things done in monetary policy?	400 False The federal sector has grown the more than the state and local workers sector over the past 60 years
500 Spoils System (Patronage) This term refers to a system in which people are chosen for government positions based not on experience or skills, but on who they know	500 Federal Trade Commission FTC	500 15 How many different cabinet departments are in existence?	500 Budgeting, taxing, and spending policies What are two types of federal policies set in fiscal policy?	500 True The FRB's primary responsibility is to set monetary policy

Chapter 9: The Bureaucracy

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