Chapter 12 Electronic Test (Multiple Choice)

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1. The American people tend to

2. The bureaucracy is accountable to 3. NASA, the CIA, and the Environmental Protection Agency are examples of 4. Which cabinet department was abolished in 1970 and transformed into an independent, government-owned corporation? 5. Which of the following is administratively independent of all three branches of government? 6. Which of the following licenses and regulates all television and radio stations in the United States? 7. President Jimmy Carter called for the deregulation of 8. Two former regulatory agencies that no longer exist are 9. Which president, in the wake of public indignation over the assassination of his predecessor, became a champion of civil service reform? 10. Which of the following agencies was not established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978? 11. Under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, federal officials were given somewhat more flexibility in firing employees for 12. During the 1980 campaign, candidate Ronald Reagan promised that, if elected, he would to abolish the Departments of 13. In 1961 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara inaugurated the management tool of

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