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Modern Bureaucracy
How the Bureaucracy Works
Roots of the Bureaucracy
Key Terms
Misc.
100
Number of Cabinet departments today.
What is 15?
100
The process by which a law or policy is put into operation.
What is implementation?
100
Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of War, and Department of Treasury
What is the first three departments under the Articles of Confederation?
100
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 is bureaucracy?
100
The number of federal workers today is under 2.7 million people. (True/False)
What is False?
200
Under this federal employees can't be fired because of political reasons.
What is the merit system?
200
Refering to the relatively stable relationships and patterns of interaction that occurred amoung federal workers in agencies or departments, interest groups, and relevant congressional committees and subcommittees.
What is iron triangles?
200
The president that created hundreds of new government agencies to regulate business practices and various aspects of the national economy.
What is FDR?
200
The firing of public-office holders of a defeated political party their replacement with loyalists of the newly elected party.
What is the spoils system?
200
Virginia is in the third bureaucratic zone grouped with West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and ________.
What is Delware?
300
Governmental units that closely resemble a cabinet department but have a narrowed amount of responsibility.
What is independent executive agencies?
300
Act that allows everyone to interact with the creation of a rule.
What is the 1946 Adminstrative Procedure Act?
300
Was a huge part of the widespread growth of big business in the bureaucracy during the 1800's.
What is the creation of railroads?
300
Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given as rewards to rewards to friends and political allies for their support.
What is patronage?
300
Is the capital for the zone that includes Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delware, and Maryland
What is Philadelphia?
400
The number of regions that the United States is broken up into to enhance the efficiency of agencies.
What is ten?
400
3 of the 6 main characteristics of "model bureaucracies".
What is 1. A chain of command in which authority flows from top to bottom. 2. A division of labor whereby work is apportioned among specialized worker to increase productivity. 3. Clear lines of authority among workers and their superiors. 4. A goal orientation that determines structure, authority, and rules. 5. Impersonality, whereby all employes are treated fairly based on merit and all clients are served equally, without discrimination, according to established rules. 6. Productivity, whereby all work and actionsare evaluated according to established rules.
400
An agency created by congress that is generally concerned with a specific aspect of the economy.
What is independent regulatory commission?
400
The system by which federal civil service jobs are classified into grades or levels, to which appointments are made on the basis of performance on competitive examinations.
What is the merit system?
400
The two types of congressional oversight when dealing with agencies and programs.
What is police patrol and alarm oversight?
500
Today federal employees fall under these three categories.
What is appointive policy-making positions, independent regulatory commissioners, and low-level, nonpolicy patronage positions.
500
The five contributing groups and factor that are involved with the creation of regulations.
What is judicial decision, new legislation, executive branch decision, interest groups, and media pressure.
500
The expansion of the bureaucracy with The Department of Housing and Urban Development along with The Department of Transportation led to this in the 1960's.
What is the increase of the president's power and ability to persuade congress?
500
A quasijudicial process in which a bureaucratic agency settles disputes between two parties in a manner similar to the way courts resolve disputes.
What is administrative adjudication?
500
Unknown (most likely 25-44 years old)
What is the age of Mrs. Diette?