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| The Merit Systems Protection Board petitions the government to become a government corporation. What are three questions that are likely to rise? |
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Is its business essentially commercial?
Does it generate its own revenue?
Does its mission require greater flexibility than government agencies normally have? |
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Which of the following is NOT a cabinet-level department?
Health and Human Services?
Veterans' Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Housing and Urban Development |
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| Office of Management and Budget |
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| The Commission form of county government is the most or least common form of local government? What kind of authority does it have? |
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It is the most common form of county government.
It has Legislative and executive authority. |
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| To eliminate bossism in local government, the early progressives suggested that... |
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| municipalities have a chief executive armed with critical administrative powers. |
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Which of the following is an example of a regulatory commission?
Federal Communications Commission?
Department of Homeland Security?
Securities and Exchange Commission? |
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Federal Communications Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission |
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| There was a time when the President lacked enough personnel to do the President's work. This was remedied by the.... |
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| The term "third sector" refers to the... |
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| public non-profits and private foundations. |
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| The American tradition of philanthropy, charity, and volunteerism comes from the ancient roots of.... |
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| Judeo-Christian beliefs and Greco-Roman tradition. |
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What is NOT a characteristic of a government corporation.
Agency's business is essentially commercial.
Agency can generate its own revenue.
Congress provides 100% of the corporation's revenue.
Agency's mission requires greater flexibility than Government agencies normally have. |
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| Congress provides 100 percent of the corporations revenue. |
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| The non-profit sector is... |
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| a uniquely democratic phenomena, fills economic voids with volunteers and charities, and provides a flexible alternative to tax-supported government agencies. |
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| Privatization refers to the... |
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| sale of government assets to private corporations, and private financing of public facilities [such as prisons, toll roads, and highways]. |
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| The Grace Commission Report based its philosophy on the notion that... |
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| leaders in the private sector could solve government problems. |
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| The Obama administration has.... |
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| been accused as a return to big government policies, and defended its major expansion into the economy as a temporary phase. |
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| What is the difference between Philanthropy and Charity? |
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Philanthropy is giving based on solving social problems in a developmental manner, that invests in the future.
Charity is the compassionate relieving of specific instances of suffering. |
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| Reinventing government represents two long-standing influences in public life - the progressive reform movement and management faddism [true/false] |
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| In the US, the machinery of government is far more liberal than in other countries - Britain, Australia, and New Zealand for example. As a consequence, the machinery of government in America, changes frequently [true/false] |
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| Independent public bodies in the US range in purpose from public business corporations, to regulators and watchdogs, to foundations committed to worthy purposes. [True/False] |
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| The separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, in theory, make tyrannical concentration of power impossible in the US government [True/False] |
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| All caminet departments are not equal. The "Inner" cabinet members have departmental missions that make them more prominent and influential than others [True/False] |
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| A city is a municipal corporation chartered by the federal government [true/false] |
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