What does the merit system mean for government jobs?
- Jobs go to political friends
- Jobs go by skill and qualifications
- Jobs rotate to new winners
Most of what government does each day is done by whom?
- Unelected officials applying policies
- Elected ministers giving speeches
- Foreign diplomats visiting
Which of these services is run locally?
- Printing money
- Making treaties
- Collecting garbage
An official has discretion over your case. What does that mean?
- Free choice to invent any rule
- Limited room judging how a rule fits your case
- Power to ignore every rule
A pothole wrecks your street. Who should hear about it first?
- The national defence office
- The state elections office
- The local council
A civil servant who refuses a permit is making up the rules on the spot.
Circle one: True False
A student says every election sweeps all officials out and restarts services. What is wrong?
- Elections never change any leader
- The permanent civil service stays and work continues
- Councils close during elections
Your bins go uncollected for weeks. What is your best first move?
- Complain to the council team running collections
- Write to the national leader
- Stop paying all taxes
The officials who actually do it W1-mt_oCh-n1NG7P-s1
- Jobs go by skill and qualifications · Merit hiring rewards ability, not connections.
- Unelected officials applying policies · The bureaucracy of nonelected officials does the daily work.
- Collecting garbage · Garbage collection sits with your town or city council.
- Limited room judging how a rule fits your case · Discretion is small judgment inside rules made by others.
- The local council · Local roads belong to the local level, which is also funded there.
- False · Officials apply rules made by others, not personal inventions.
- The permanent civil service stays and work continues · Permanence across elections is the point of a civil service.
- Complain to the council team running collections · Challenge the body that actually applies the rule and ask for review.