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The implied powers of the government comes from this specific clause in the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 8.
What is the Necessary and Proper clause?
(Also referred to as the "elastic" clause)
The Father of bureaucratic studies.
Who is Max Weber?
It's also called the policy cycle.
What is the stages-heuristic model?
The division of powers and functions between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
(This is traditional or vertical federalism)
He is known as the father of American public administration.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The process of prioritizing information for government action.
What does agenda setting refer to?
This amendment provides the states with police powers.
What is the 10th amendment?
(the "reserved powers" amendment)
The earlier shuttle disaster frequently compared to Columbia.
What was the Challenger shuttle disaster?
Max Weber explained it as a legally established impersonal order based on office/position.
What is rational-legal authority?
The financial relationship that developed between the levels of government where the states largely rely on the federal government for funding.
What is fiscal federalism?
It includes scope and cost.
What are the charactersitics of a public problem?
The traditional model of relationships among interest groups, bureaucracies, and Congress.
What is the "iron triangle"?
John Kingdon calls this a focusing event.
What is an unexpected crisis situation?
This is an analogy used to refer to creative/regulated federalism in order to help describe the relationship between the different levels of government.
What is picket fence federalism?
The two primary explosian hazards in coal mines.
What are coal dust and gas?
Two "after-the-fact" controls over bureaucracy used by Congress.
What are "fire alarm" and "police patrol"?
Political power is "the lifeblood of administration" according to this person.
Who is Norton E. Long?
The assassination of President Garfield led to the adoption of this policy.
What is the Civil Service Reform Act (Pendelton Act)?
The type of policy where "those involved are those who pay for others to be able to benefit".
What is regulatory policy?
Theory explaining sudden shifts in policy after long periods of stability.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
States partnering together to enter into lawsuits against big tobacco or Microsoft Corporation.
What is multi-state legal action?
(An example of horizontal federalism)
Theodore Lowi's 4 policy typologies explained in the class lecture.
What are distributive, redistributive, regulatory, and self-regulatory types of policies?
These are grants provided by the federal government to lower levels of government designitated for very specific policy areas.
What is a categorical grant?
These three concepts form "conceptual trilogy" according to Deil Wright.
What is federalism (FED), intergovernmental relations (IGR), and intergovernmental management (IGM)?
The theory explaining policymaking through coalitions of actors.
What is the advocacy coalition framework?