A hiearchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle.
What is bureaucracy
100
The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill
What is the merit principle
100
A government agency responsible for some sector of the economy, making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest.
What is a independent regulatory commission
100
Title IX of the education act of 1972 is an example were Congress stated a broad policy goal and left the implementation to the bureaucraces
What is Lack of Clarity
100
The use of governmental authority to control or change some practices in the private sector
What is regulation
200
The real growth in the bureaucracy is found in these sectors
What is the state and local sector
200
A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics
What is the Hatch Act
200
This agency is charged with governing banks and regulating the supply of money
What is the Federal Reserve Board
200
An example of this is when US troops in Iraq had insufficient numbers of body armor and Humvees to protect them from IEDs
What is Lack of resources
200
The lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities
What is deregulation
300
This department makes up over half of the federal bureaucracy
What is Department of Defense
300
The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process
What is (OPM) Office of Personnel Management
300
The U. S. Postal Service is an example of this type that provides a service that could be provided by the private sector
What is a government corporation
300
An example of this would be when the FDA lacked the powers to protect the public from dangerous drugs like Halicon
What is lack of authority
300
Regulations originating from the president
What is executive orders
400
The hiring and promotion system based on political reasons rather than on merit
What is patronage
400
The "cream of the crop" of federal employees of about 9,000 government managers who do not require Senate confirmation
What is Senior Executive Service
400
NASA is an example of this that is not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, and government corporations that serve at the presidents pleasure
What is a independent executive agency
400
These are used to make numerous everyday decisions
What is (SOPs) Standard operating procedures
400
A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional subcommittees
What is Iron Triangles
500
Passed in 1883, an Act that made so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act
500
Congress publishes this list of the top federal jobs that are presidential appointments with Senate approval. There are about 500 of these.
What is Plum Book
500
The stage of policymaking between the establishment of a policy and the consequences of the policy for the people whom it affects.
What is policy implementation
500
Street level bureaucrats use this when SOPs do not fit the case.
What is Administrative discretion
500
Command and control policy is typical of regulation that punishes offenders, a more effective and efficient policy uses a carott instead of a stick. Name it.