Vocab
Difference between Medicare and Medicaid.
What is Medicare for the eldeerly and Medicaid for the poor?
The U.S Postal Service, AM Trak, and the Tennessee Valley Authority are examples of these groups.
What are Government Corporations?
Individuals who expose misconduct or corruption.
What are Whistleblowers?
Significance of Marbury v Madison?
What is establishing Judicial review?
The 15 department heads that serve as an advisory board for the President.
What is the cabinet?
The stage of policy making between the establishment of a policy and the consequences of a policy for the people affected.
What is implementation?
The department created post 9/11, to demonstrate the bureaucracys response to dynamic changes and challenges.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This act states that hiring must be based on merit.
What is the Pendleton Act
Making appointments and executive orders are examples of this.
What is presidential oversight?
Bureaucracy is organized in this kind of structure.
What is hierarchical?
Government organizations that implement rules and regulations.
What is bureaucracy?
The organization responsible for maintaining the standards for food safety.
What is the FDA?
The Pendleton Act prohibited this practice.
What is patronage/spoils system?
What is the purpose of congressional oversight?
What is to hold agencies accountable and ensure they are operating with accordance to established laws?
Name one element of implementation.
1. Create new agency pr assign responsibilities to old agencies.
2. Translate policy rules and create new guidelines.
3. Coordination of resources to achieve goals.
Ways that the legislative branch can check bureaucracy.
What is legislative oversight?
9,000 federal government managers that provide leadership at the top of the civil service system.
What is the Senior Executive Service?
The GS Rating is this.
What is a schedule for federal employees that rates jobs from a GS 1 to a GS 18 and have salaries based on the rating and experience of workers?
Privitization of US postal services
What is the government enhancing mail delivery?
IRS tax Code
The list of top federal jobs and presidential appointments.
What is the Plum Book?
Agencies established by Congress with separate status outside the executive branch.
What are Independent Executive Agencies?
Bureaucracy is growing bigger, Americans dislike it , most workers are located in D.C. and, bureaucracy is ineffective.
What are Bureaucratic myths?
What court case demonstrated the principle-agent problem?
What is West Virginia v. EPA case?
Who is the creator of Bureaucracy
Who is Max Weber?