Basics
an organization characterized by hierarchal structure: those at the top are responsible for the organization's success and give orders, and those below follow
What is the bureaucracy?
Civil service reform that required the hiring and promoting of civil servants to be based on merit, not patronage
What is the Pendleton Act?
individuals who publicize fraud, corruption, or other wrongdoing in the bureaucracy
what are whistleblowers?
The Four Characteristics of a bureaucracy
What is hierarchy, specialization, explicit rules, and merit?
Sunshine Laws
what is make the process of bureaucratic policymaking public?
Good bureaucrats develop a commitment to this
what are the policy issues their agency is tasked with?
The practice of firing government workers of a defeated party and replacing them with loyalists of the victorious party
What is the Spoils System?
What is the Hatch Act?
a process where regulatory agencies come to be protective of and influenced by the industries they were established to regulate
what is agency capture?
The federal government has this many departments
The Freedom of Information Act did what
"Iron Triangles" are what
What is a tight alliance among congressional committees, interest groups or representatives of regulated industries, and bureaucratic agencies, in which policy comes to be made for the benefits of all involved, rather than the greater public?
The four types of organizations of the federal government?
what are cabinet-level departments, independent agencies, regulatory boards and commissions, and government corporations?
Law that gives citizens access to the government's files on them
What is the Privacy Act of 1974?
The term "birds of passage" refers to what and why
What are presidential candidates, because they often come and go?