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Multiple-Choice Quiz

1 .       Studies have found that most Americans [Hint]



2 .       Patronage is a hiring and promotion system based on [Hint]



3 .       The rationale for the civil service rests on the [Hint]



4 .       The plum book lists [Hint]



5 .       According to the sociologist Max Weber, a bureaucracy depends upon each of the following elements EXCEPT [Hint]



6 .       The parts of the federal bureaucracy with responsibility for making and enforcing rules designed to protect the public interest are the [Hint]



7 .       Government corporations [Hint]



8 .       The main job of bureaucrats is to [Hint]



9 .       Creating new agencies, developing guidelines, and coordinating resources to achieve a policy goal is called [Hint]



10 .       The main obstacle to the successful implementation of the policy prohibiting sex discrimination in intercollegiate athletics was [Hint]



11 .       The deterioration of the national parks is primarily a bureaucratic problem of [Hint]



12 .       The authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem is called [Hint]



13 .       The diffusion of responsibility within the bureaucracy [Hint]



14 .       The most controversial role of the bureaucracies is [Hint]



15 .       The Supreme Court case of Munn v. Illinois (1877) [Hint]



16 .       When Congress passes regulatory legislation for which it has established goals, it then [Hint]



17 .       Deregulation is responsible, at least in part, for each of the following EXCEPT [Hint]



18 .       To a great extent, the ability of bureaucracies to respond to and represent the public's interests depends on [Hint]



19 .       Presidents try to control the bureaucracy through [Hint]



20 .       Congress tries to control the bureaucracy through [Hint]



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