Describe the history of administrative reform in the United States.How have specific presidents worked to reform the bureaucracy? Provide specific examples
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should:
a. Discuss Woodrow Wilson's early statements surrounding separation between politics and administration, noting that although it has rhetorical appeal, this separation is nearly impossible to achieve in real life.
b. Explain how FDR employed the language of efficiency when detailing the need for the Brownlow Committee and how his efforts to impose order on an expanding bureaucracy were similar to those of Theodore Roosevelt in that both Roosevelts sought to enhance federal efficiency and improve quality of outputs.
c.Describe the efforts of other presidents to build on that beginning, including Eisenhower's convening of a second Hoover Commission, Clinton's NPR, Bush's PMA, and Obama's Reform plan.
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The average American is becoming:
A. younger B. older C. more liberal D. more traditional E. submissive to authority
According to liberals, why did 19th century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck introduce Social Security?
a) He had a strong social conscience. b) He thought workers who felt secure would have higher morale and be more productive. c) He was foreseeing retirement problems for the current generation of workers. d) He knew the economy would be helped by private Social Security funds.
When Congress approves the final budget for the fiscal year,on what do they rely the most for information?
A)staffing projections of the various agencies B)report of the Congressional Budget Office C)president's budget proposal D)majority party's budget recommendations