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Chapter 13: The Federal Bureaucracy

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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The American is an organizational hodgepodge with few clear lines of control, responsibility, or accountability.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Federal bureaucratic agencies really have two bosses: the president and .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Beginning in the late 1900s, the national bureaucracy has grown fairly steadily. It was, however, the that forever changed how Americans thought about government, and led the way to the development of the modern administrative state.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The effort of the Republicans to pare down the size of the federal government upon taking control of Congress in 1994 involved both .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Executive are headed by cabinet-level secretaries, appointed by the president, and approved by the Senate.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Subdivisions within cabinet departments are known as and agencies.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. are agencies that operate in a market setting and are organized much like private companies.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. From the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828 until the late nineteenth century, the executive branch was staffed through the system, or patronage.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Competitive examinations became a way to determine merit and thus job placement after the adoption of the Civil Service Act of 1883, also known as the Act.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Most presidents use as a staffing device to fill political appointee positions.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Hearings, the main instruments of , are used to convey congressional positions to bureaucrats.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. An increasingly popular strategy for scaling back the federal bureaucracy is , the transfer of many government functions to the private sector.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Reformers say that the protection of , those bureaucrats who report abuses of power, corruption, financial mismanagement, or other official malfeasance, is necessary in order to protect against bureaucratic abuses of power.

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