This is what we call a system of organization and control based on the principles of hierarchical authority, job specialization, and formalized rules.
What is bureaucracy?
100
This system is an approach to managing the bureaucracy in the 1800’s where people are appointed to high end government positions as a reward for their previous political service. This system was popular with the general public, but not by elite government officials.
What is the patronage system?
100
They are the source of the bureaucracy's programs and funding.
What is Congress’ control over the bureaucracy?
100
**DAILY DOUBLE**
What is the the key unit within the Executive Office of the President that creates the budget?
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
100
What does NASA stand for?
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
200
The chain of command within an organization.
What is hierarchical authority?
200
This system is what elite government officials in the 1800’s labeled the patronage system as because they thought it was unfair that friends and party hacks were appointed important positions as a reward and not as a result of hard work.
What is the spoils system?
200
When administrators look out for their agencies.
What is the “agency point of view”?
200
The degree to which bureaucrats are held accountable for the power they exercise defines what?
What is Bureaucratic accountability
200
What law establishes a specific date when a law will expire unless reenacted by Congress?
What is sunset law?
300
This act prohibited strikes by federal employees and permitted the firing of striking workers.
What is Taft-Hartley act of 1947?
300
This system appoints people into government official positions as a result of their previous work, special skills and qualifications they have, their competitive examination and professional training.
What is the merit (civil service) system?
300
**DAILY DOUBLE**
The special interests that benefit directly from an agency’s programs
What are clientele groups?
300
What are Congress’ powers over the bureaucracy?
What is the authorization and funding of programs?
300
What bureaucratic agencies did George W. Bush use to help launch his war on terrorism in 2001?
What is the C.I.A. and Department of Defense?
400
What is the main job of administrative agencies?
What is policy implementation?
400
The merit and patronage system setbacks in practice are that the president can gain too much leverage over the bureaucracy. What does that do to the power Congress has?
What is weaken the ability to act as a check on presidential power?
400
Agencies that are more likely to have close ties to Congress
What are agencies that offer benefits to major constituency interests?
400
What are the two mechanisms designed to ensure accountability within the bureaucracy?
What is whistle-blowing and demographic representativeness?
400
What is the the act if reporting instances of official mismanagement?
What is What is Whistle-blowing?
500
What are the five general forms that policy lines take?
What is cabinet department, independent agency, regulatory agency, government corporations, and presidential commissions?
500
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was created to give the president what?
What is to give the president the authority to coordinate the annual budgetary process?
500
The agencies who are among the few that would understand the issues of the U.S. trade deficit with China
What is Commerce Department and Federal Trade Commission?
500
Bureaucratic accountability through the presidency includes...
What is appointment of agency heads, budgetary oversight through the Office of Management and Budget, or the president’s authority to recommend the reorganization of federal agencies
500
Within the patronage system what was the federal government’s role mainly confined to in the bureaucracy?
What is defense and foreign affairs, currency and interstate commerce, and the delivery of the mail?