Civil Service Reform
What was the spoils system?
Spoils system: the method where a successful political party gives public office to its supporters
Define Bureaucracy.
A set of complex hierarchical departments, agencies, commissions, and their staffs that exist to help a chief executive officer carry out his or her duties.
What was the first independent regulatory commission?
Interstate Commerce Commission
The purpose of the Pendleton Service Act was to...
abolish the usage of the spoils system and replace it with a merit system
Where does the bureaucracy obtain most of its power?
From Congress delegating its powers
Define Iron Triangles.
Relatively stable relationships and patterns of interaction that occurred among federal workers in agencies or departments, interest groups, and relevant congressional committees
In what year and by which president was the Pendleton Service Act passed?
1883 by President Chester A. Arthur
Congress created the ICC in order to...
Name the 4 categories of bureaucratic agencies.
Departments, Governmental Corporations, Independent Agencies, and Independent Regulatory Commissions