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The Executive Branch MCQ

White House Office is an in-house group of advisers that includes the Office of the Chief of Staff the Communications Office, including_____ , the Office of the First Lady; and various political advisers.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Weak Presidents are the presidents who have difficulty getting priorities through even a friendly Congress.

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Correct Answer: True

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The theory that the executive, not the ______ is at the core of American power is known as Unitary Executive.

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Correct Answer: Legislature

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Formal agreements with other countries; negotiated by the president and requiring approval by two thirds of the Senate is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Treaties

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The founders’ vision of limited ______ power is called Traditional Presidency.

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Correct Answer: Executive

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The practice of _______ a bureaucracy that serves the president’s interest is called Spoils system.

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Correct Answer: Creating

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Filling in all the technical details in the laws Congress passes so that they can be enforced is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Rule making

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Limitations or restrictions on the activities of a business or an individual is called_____

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Correct Answer: Regulations

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The complex procedures and regulations surrounding bureaucratic activity is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Red tape

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A president’s authority to reject a bill passed by Congress; may be overridden only by _______ majority in each house is called presidential Veto.

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Correct Answer: Two-thirds

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The ________ within the White House that serves the president is called Presidential Branch.

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Correct Answer: Bureaucracy

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President

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Correct Answer: Congress

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A president’s authority to ________ a person from the legal penalties of a crime is called Power to Pardon.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Patronage is a system in which people in power reward friends, contributors, and party loyalists for their support with _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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An ideal bureaucratic structure where power is hierarchical and rule based, and where people are appointed because of their expertise and promoted on the basis of merit is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Neutral competence

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The trend toward a higher degree of executive power since the 1930s in response to more complex _______.

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Correct Answer: Social problems

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Issue Networks are the complex systems of relationships among groups that influence _______, including elected leaders, interest groups, specialists, consultants, and research institutes

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Correct Answer: Policy

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Iron triangle is the close policy-making relationships among legislators,______, and the groups being regulated that tend to exclude the public.

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Correct Answer: Regulators

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Presidential powers implied but not stated explicitly in the Constitution are called _______.

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Correct Answer: Inherent powers

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Independent regulatory boards and commissions are _______ that regulate various businesses, industries, or economic sectors.

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Correct Answer: Government organizations

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Independent Agencies are the organizations within the executive branch that execute the law and that are separate from the _______.

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Correct Answer: Departments

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Honeymoon Period is the first 100 days ______ an election when a president’s popularity is high and congressional relations are likely to be productive.

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Correct Answer: Following an election

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The president’s largely ceremonial, apolitical role in rallying together the population is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Head of state

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The president’s partisan role as head of the president’s own party, twister of arms, maker of deals, and pusher of the party’s agenda is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Head of government

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Government Corporations are organizations that fill some _______ functions that are important but not profitable enough for private industry to supply.

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Correct Answer: Commercial

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A _______ strategy of drumming up support with the public on an issue, with the hope of using public pressure as leverage with Congress is known as Going Public.

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Correct Answer: President’s

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Federal Bureaucracy is the network of departments, agencies, and boards and commissions that make up the executive branch at the federal level; characterized by __________ worker specialization, and advancement by merit.

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Correct Answer: Both of these

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Executive privilege is president's ability to claim that some materials relevant to the job must be kept confidential to enable them to perform their duties or for national security reasons; a right with limits, according to the ______.

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Correct Answer: Supreme court

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Clarifications of congressional policy issued by the president and having the full force of law is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Executive orders

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The agencies and advisers that help the president manage the range of issues that the White House has to deal with every day is called _______ of the president.

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Correct Answer: Executive office

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Executive Agreements are presidential arrangements with other countries that create foreign policy with the need for Senate approval.

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Correct Answer: False

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Executive means the one who has the power to carry out _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Divided Government is the situation that exists when political rule is split between two parties, in which one controls the White House and the other controls______

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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One of the major subdivisions of the federal government, represented in the president’s cabinet refers to Departments.

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Correct Answer: True

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Cycle effect is the predictable rise and fall of a president’s popularity at different stages of a term in ______

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Correct Answer: Office

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Civil service Reforms are the efforts begun in the _______ to ensure that the federal bureaucracy serves the interests of the public rather than the powerful.

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Correct Answer: 1880s

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When the bureaucracy exercises legislative power delegated to it by _______ is called Bureaucratic discretion.

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Correct Answer: Congressional law

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The accepted values and procedures of an organization is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Bureaucratic culture

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A hierarchical decision-making structure in which unelected officials answer to the layer of people above them, who in turn answer to the people above them, and so on is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Bureaucracy

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The president’s power to select the heads of the departments (the cabinet), as well as more than ________ federal employees is called appointment power.

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Correct Answer: 3500

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When a _______ agency begins to identify the interests of the groups it regulates as its own is called Agency Capture.

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Correct Answer: Government

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