Chapter 6

Question 1

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

The central administration of Britain, (1) ______ most other countries, is separated in separate (2) ______ or (3) ______ (there is (4) ______ real distinction between the two). There are about (5) ______ of these but cabinet ministers head the (6) ______ most major of them.

unlikebureausa
like departments divisions
ministries no 370
17 50 70
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Correct Answer: See page 121.

Question 2

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Ministers are formally responsible for what goes on in their (1) ______ and are responsible to (2) ______ for all that goes on in their (3) ______.

Department private life
agencies Party
parliamentary committee Parliament
permanent secretary Department
cabinet committee sub-committees
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Correct Answer: See pages 125 and 126.

Question 3

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

The four main features of the civil service role are (1) ______, (2) ______, (3) ______ and (4) ______.

Reliability impartiality ambition
Anonymity ability honesty
Secrecy willingness to serve subservience
permanence Trust confidentiality
public spirit hard work
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Correct Answer: See page 129.

Question 4

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

The (1) ______ Rules are for the guidance of civil servants appearing before (2) ______ and designed to protect (3) ______ (4) ______.

ArmstrongOsmotherly Pointing
Tisdall Commons committees the courts
the press the cabinet The prime Minister
cabinet members civil servants
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Correct Answer: See page 129.

Question 5

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

In theory ministers are responsible for (1) ______, and civil servants for (2) ______.

Policy makingsecrecy
implementation organisation
Signing documents departmental business
administration
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Correct Answer: See page 131.

Question 6

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

The German sociologist (1) ______ (2) ______ wrote: 'For the time being the dictatorship of the (3) ______, and not that of the (4) ______, is on the march.'

Karl Marx Georg Simmel Niklas Luhmann
Max Weber Politician reporter
capitalist official Voter
worker ruling party government
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Correct Answer: See page 131.

Question 7

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Special advisors are temporary (1) ______ ______ and bound by the (2) _______ ______ code. But unlike regular (3) ______ ______, they do not need to be appointed on (4) ______ or to be politically (5) ______.

civil servants cabinet ministers party members
British Political Civil Service Special Advisors
civil servants cabinet ministers party members
record Mondays merit
active neutral radical
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Correct Answer: See page 131.

Question 8

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

Special advisors are temporary (1) ______ ______ and bound by the (2) _______ ______ code. But unlike regular (3) ______ ______, they do not need to be appointed on (4) ______ or to be politically (5) ______.

civil servants cabinet ministers party members
British Political Civil Service Special Advisors
civil servants cabinet ministers party members
record Mondays merit
active neutral radical
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Correct Answer: See page 135.

Question 9

Read the following text and then type the missing words (numbering your answers as appropriate) using the words in the table below the text.

After much pressure, the government published its Civil Service (1) ______ in 2006, but its increasing use of (2) ______ ______ and (3) ______ ______ has tended to undermine the traditional policy (4) ______ role of the senior civil servants and bypass normal departmental methods of (5) ______ ______.

Bill Act rules
image consultants special advisers emergency measures
party members policy consultants task forces
adviser maker writer
policy making party funding granting peerages
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Correct Answer: See page 136.