The Bureacrats
How Bureaucracies Are Organized
Bureaucracies As Implementors
Bureaucracies As Regulators
Understanding Bureaucracies
100
A hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates the merit principle and behaves with impersonality.
What is bureaucracy?
100
A government agency responsible for some sector of the economy, making and enforcing rules to protect the public interests.
What is the Independent regulatory Agency?
100
The stage of policy making between the establishment of a policy and the consequences of the policy for the people whom it affects.
What is policy implementation?
100
The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector.
What is regulation?
100
The MUTUALLY dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups and congressional committees and subcommittees.
What is the Iron Triangle?
200
Lists top federal jobs available for direct presidential appointment, often with the senate confirmation.
What is the Plum Book?
200
Licensing Radio and TV stations and regulates the programming in the public interest, and regulates the internet.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
200
The procedures that are used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations.
What are the Standard Operation Procedures (SOP)?
200
The existing system of regulation whereby government tells businesses how to reach certain goal, checks that these commands are followed, and punishes offenders.
What is command-and-control-policy.
300
The act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
300
The cabinet departments, regulatory agencies, government corporations, and independent executive agencies.
What are the four basic types of agencies?
300
The type of bureaucrats that include police officers, welfare workers, and lower-court judges.
Who are street-level bureaucrats?
300
A federal agency charged with ensuring worker safety.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
300
The have greatly increased Congress' oversight activities.
What have subcommittees done?
400
It prohibits civil service employees from actively participating in partisan politics while on duty.
What is the Hatch Act?
400
The government's largest corporation, first headed by Benjamin Franklin.
What is the U.S Postal Service?
400
The presidents appoint the right people to head the agency, the president can tinker with an agency's budget, congress can hold hearings, and congress can rewrite the legislation or make it more detailed.
How do the president and congress try to control the bureaucracy?
500
They are in charge of hiring for most federal agencies.
What is the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)?
500
They are designed to be somewhat insulated from the influence of politics. They provide the potential of taking a long range view and acting in the public interest.
Why do independent executive matter?
500
This act was a successful case of implementation by any standard because of the clear goal, clear implementations and the authorities implementing.
Why was the Voting Rights Act successful?
500
Federal Communications Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety and Quality Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
What are everyday bureaucratic regulation agencies?
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