Government Congress Quiz Part 2

An organization characterized by hierarchical structure, worker specialization, explicit rules, and advancement by merit

• Anarchy

• The White House

• Bureaucracy

• Congress

The principle that bureaucracy should be depoliticized by making it more professional

• Professional Competence

• Neutral Competence

• Professional Bureaucracy

• Congress

The principle that bureaucratic employees should be answerable for their performance to supervisors, all the way up the chain of command

• Fairness

• Accountability

• Strength

• Leadership

The complex procedures and regulations surrounding bureaucratic activity

• Meetings

• Red tape

• Yellow tape

• Casework

The nineteenth-century practice of firing government workers of a defeated party and replacing them with loyalist if the victorious party

• Red tape

• Spoils system

• Old Presidency

• Patronage

A system in which a successful candidate rewards friends, contributors, and party loyalists for their support with jobs, contracts, and favors

• Spoils system

• Patronage

• Congress

• Hatch Act

Nonmilitary employees of the government who are appointed through the merit system

• Social Security

• Civil Service

• Agencies

• Military Personnel

The 1883 civil service reform that required the hiring and promoting of civil servants to be based on merit, not patronage

• Pendleton Act

• Hatch Act

• Civil Service

• Clientele groups

The 1939 law that limited the political involvement of civil servants to protect them from political pressure and keep politics out of the bureaucracy

• Clientele groups

• Presidential Act of the Servants

• Hatch Act

• Pendleton Act

Groups of citizens whose interests are affected by an agency or a department and who work to influence its policies

• Civil groups

• Departments

• Agencies

• Clientele groups