According to the text, a stronger chief executive with more supervisory control would be _____. ...

According to the text, a stronger chief executive with more supervisory control would be _____.
 
  a. a positive change because it would give responsibility to a highly visible and accountable elected official
  b. a positive change because it would lead to lower agency budgets
 c. a negative change because the Texas governor, who is already powerful, would become even more powerful
  d. a negative change because most agencies are politically neutral, and this would politicize agencies
  e. all of these

 Q. 2

In which of these ways is the Texas governor's control over the bureaucracy limited?
 
  a. The governor's appointment powers are restricted and removal powers are limited.
  b. There is no true executive budget.
 c. The executive branch is fragmented into numerous departments, commissions, and boards.
  d. All of these are ways the governor's control is limited.
 e. None of these are ways the governor's control is limited.

 Q. 3

What is the importance of the Texas Performance Review (TPR) System?
 
  a. It reflected an increasingly liberal approach to state spending during the 1990s.
 b. It requires that agencies prepare strategic plans before submitting budget proposals to the legislature.
  c. It was a budgeting approach that decreased accountability for state agencies.
 d. It created the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) to handle state budgets.
 e. All of these are important parts of the TPR System.

 Q. 4

Factors that help make the bureaucracy in Texas accountable include all of these except _____.
 
  a. the long ballot
 b. sunset reviews
 c. legislative oversight
 d. a more integrated executive branch
  e. an open records law

 Q. 5

Which of these is a source of power for the governor when dealing with bureaucracies?
 
  a. the fact that the governor often appoints the agency head or the members of the board that oversees the agency
  b. influencing legislators to look favorably on the agency
 c. helping an agency get its budget increased
 d. giving an agency visibility
 e. all of these

 Q. 6

Which of these might tempt some administrators toward inappropriate bureaucratic behavior?
 
  a. extremely strongly interest groups, the handicapped legislature, and the lack of a whistle-blowing law in Texas
  b. weaknesses in the governor's office, lack of hierarchical control within the agency, and the lack of a whistle-blowing law in Texas
  c. extremely strongly interest groups, weaknesses in the governor's office, and the handicapped legislature
  d. the handicapped legislature, lack of hierarchical control within the agency, and the lack of a whistle-blowing law in Texas
  e. extremely strongly interest groups, weaknesses in the governor's office, and lack of hierarchical control within the agency

 Q. 7

Why does goal displacement occur?
 
  a. the creation of agencies with overlapping authority
 b. regulatory agencies being co-opted by their clientele groups
 c. appointed administrators who cannot easily be removed
 d. lack of public understanding about which official or agency is responsible
  e. all of these

 Q. 8

What term is used to describe the situation in which a public agency has lost its concern for the general public interest and its ability to see different points of view?
 
  a. goal displacement
  b. whistle-blowing
  c. policy implementation
  d. bureaucratic reorganization
  e. performance review