A large organization that is structured hierarachically to carry out specific functions.
What is bureaucracy?
100
Places the limits on the spoils system
What is the Civil Service Reform Act of 1883?
100
The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) undertakes programs aimed at reducing air and water pollution; works with state and local agencies to help fight environmental hazards.
What is the EPA?
100
Lyndon Johnson's plan consisted of Programming, planning, and budgeting systems.
What is Lyndon Johnson?
100
The Weberian Model is a model of bureaucracy developed by the German sociologist Max Weber.
What is the Weberian Model?
200
Executive Departments hold the majority number of civilian employees and agencies.
What is Executive Departments?
200
It abolished the Civil Service Commission and created two new federal agencies.
What is the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978?
200
The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) regulates all communications by telegraph, cable, telephone, radio, and television.
What is the FCC?
200
Richard Nixon's plans consist of management by objectives.
What is Richard Nixon?
200
The Acquisitive Model is a model of bureaucracy that views top level bureaucrats as seeking to expand the size of their budgets and staffs to gain greater power.
What is the Acquisitive Model?
300
Legisatlors, interest groups, bureaucrats scholors, and experts, and members of the media who share a position on a given issue may attempt to exert influence on the executive branch.
What is issue network?
300
The Sunshine Act requirea all committee-directed federal agencies to conduct their buisness regularly in public session.
What is the Sunshine Act?
300
Fed (Federal Reserved System Board of Governors) determines policy with respect to interest rates, credit availability, and the money supply.
What is Fed?
300
George W. Bush's plans consisted of performance-based budgeting.
What is George W. Bush?
300
The Monopolistic Model is a model of bureaucracy that compares bureaucracies to monopolistic business firms.
What is the Monopolistic Model?
400
Laws requring that existing programs be reviewed regurlarly for their effectiveness and be terminated unless specifically extended as a result of these reviews.
What is sunset legislation?
400
Was designed to improve efficiency in the federal work force. Required that all government agencies describe their new goals and establish methods for determining whether or not those goals were met.
What is The Government Perfoemance and Results Act?
400
A federal agency that is not part of a cabinet department but reports directly to the president.
What is an Independent Executive Agency?
400
Ronald Reagan's plans consisted of president's private sector survey on cost control.
What is Ronald Reagan?
400
A federal, state, or local government unit established to perform a specific function. They're created and authorized by legislative bodies to administer and enforce specific laws.
What is the Administrative Agency?
500
The three way alliance among legistors, bureaucrats, and interest groups to make or preserve policies that benefit their respective interests.
What is iron triangle?
500
A statute enacted by Congress that authorizes the creation of an administrative agency and specifies the name, purpose, composition, functions, and powers of the agency being created.
What is Enabling Legislation?
500
An Independent Regulatory Agency is an agency outside the major executive departments charged with making and implementing rules and regulations.
What is an Independent Regulatory Agency?
500
Bill Clinton's plans consisted of re-inventing government.
What is Bill Clinton?
500
Capture is the act by which an industry being regulated by a government agency gains direct or indirect control over agency personnel and decision makers.