AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ROOTS AND
REFORM EXAMPREP VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE STUDY
MATERIAL GRADED A+
●● Administrative discretion
Answer: The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best
way to implement congressional or executive intentions
●● Civil service system
Answer: The merit system by which many federal bureaucrats are
selected
●● departments
Answer: Major administrative units with responsibility for a broad area
of government operations. Departmental status usually indicates a
permanent national interest in a particular governmental function such as
defense commerce or agriculture.
●● federal bureaucracy
Answer: The thousands of federal government agencies and institutions
that implement and administer federal laws and programs.
, ●● government corporations
Answer: Businesses established by congress to perform functions that
private businesses could provide.
●● Hatch Act
Answer: 1939 act to prohibit civil servants from taking activist roles in
partisan campaigns. This act prohibited federal employees from making
political contributions, working for a particular party, or campaigning for
a particular candidate.
●● Implementation
Answer: The process by which a law or policy is put into operation
●● Independent executive agencies
Answer: Governmental units that closely resemble a Cabinet department
but have narrower areas of responsibility and perform services rather
than regulatory functions.
●● Independent regulatory commission
Answer: An entity created by congress outside a major executive
department.
●● Interagency councils
REFORM EXAMPREP VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE STUDY
MATERIAL GRADED A+
●● Administrative discretion
Answer: The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best
way to implement congressional or executive intentions
●● Civil service system
Answer: The merit system by which many federal bureaucrats are
selected
●● departments
Answer: Major administrative units with responsibility for a broad area
of government operations. Departmental status usually indicates a
permanent national interest in a particular governmental function such as
defense commerce or agriculture.
●● federal bureaucracy
Answer: The thousands of federal government agencies and institutions
that implement and administer federal laws and programs.
, ●● government corporations
Answer: Businesses established by congress to perform functions that
private businesses could provide.
●● Hatch Act
Answer: 1939 act to prohibit civil servants from taking activist roles in
partisan campaigns. This act prohibited federal employees from making
political contributions, working for a particular party, or campaigning for
a particular candidate.
●● Implementation
Answer: The process by which a law or policy is put into operation
●● Independent executive agencies
Answer: Governmental units that closely resemble a Cabinet department
but have narrower areas of responsibility and perform services rather
than regulatory functions.
●● Independent regulatory commission
Answer: An entity created by congress outside a major executive
department.
●● Interagency councils
