American Government Institutions And Policies, Brief Version 12th Edition By James Q. Wilson – Test Bank

True / False

1. Bureaucracy is an outgrowth of representative democracy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 336
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

2. In most Western European nations, the government owns and operates large parts of the economy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 337
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

3. Government by proxy is used to describe a government that is cutting key services.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 338
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

4. Many people criticize the government-by-proxy system because the money we send to agencies is not kept track of.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 338
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

5. The original bill to create the Department of State indicated that the members of this department could only be removed by the Senate.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 339
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

6. The Civil War led to large growth in the federal bureaucracy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 340
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

7. The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was the first federal bureaucratic agency that exercised broad regulatory authority over the economy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 341
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.1 – LO1

8. As president, Richard Nixon set up a system of price and wage controls.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 342
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.4 – LO4

9. Before 1913 and the Sixteenth Amendment, the federal government could not collect income taxes.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 342
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.4 – LO4

10. The power of a bureaucracy is found in the number of employees.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: 345
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.5 – LO5

11. Unlike the excepted service, the competitive service is administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: 347
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AGBR.WILS.12.11.5 – LO5