Bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable discretion.
What is street-level bureaucrats?
100
The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector.
What is regulation?
100
The stage of policy making which involves translating the goals of a policy into an operating program.
What is policy implementation?
100
The U.S. Postal Service is an example of what kind of corporation?
What is government corporation?
100
Organization that depends on certain elements: an hierarchical authority structure, task specialization, and merit principle.
What is bureaucracy?
200
The executive department which is most employed in the Federal Civilian Employment.
What is Defense (military)?
200
Also known as the alphabet soup of American government, these type of agencies are responsible for a sector of the economy by making and enforcing rules to protect public interest.
What is independent regulatory agencies?
200
Federal Motor Carrier Admin. and Coast Guard are services of which department?
What is Dept. of Transportation?
200
The very top of the civil service system with about 9,000 members (the "cream of the crop" of federal employees)
What is Senior Executive Service (SES)?
200
This system is based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
What is civil service?
300
Procedures used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations.
What is standard operating procedures (SOPs) ?
300
An independent regulatory agency in charge with governing banks and regulating the supply of money and interest rates.
What is the Federal Reserve Board?
300
The authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem.
What is administrative discretion?
300
NASA and National Science Foundation are examples of what kind of agencies?
What is independent executive agencies?
300
A hiring and promotion system based on merit or competence.
What is patronage?
400
President who limited job protection for employees in the Department of Homeland Security.
What is President Bush?
400
Compared to command-and-control policy, this system uses market-like strategies to manage public policy.
What is incentive system?
400
The government's largest corporation.
What is U.S. Postal Service?
400
Regulates industrial products such as meat and poultry.
What is US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA)?
400
A structure in which power flows from the top down and responsibility flows from the bottom up.
What is hierarchical structure?
500
The Hatch Act prohibits civil service employees from participating in THIS while on duty.
What is partisan politics?
500
The system of regulation where government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that commands are followed, and punishes offenders.
What is command-and-control policy?
500
Implementation includes a minimum of three elements which are...
What is
1.) creation of a new agency
2.)translation of policy goals to operational goals
3.)coordination of resources?
500
An independent regulatory agency created to regulate labor management relations.
What is National Labor Relations Board?
500
This office has elaborate rules about hiring, promotion, working conditions, and firing.