Judicial & Congressional
Modern Bureaucracy
Roots of the Bureaucracy
How the Bureaucracy Works
Formal Organization
100
The process of taking legal action
What is litigation?
100
Tests at lower levels, resume in mid to upper levels to test qualifications.
What is the modern merit system?
100
‘fourth branch of government’
What is the bureaucracy?
100
Rule making and administrative adjudication
What are the two ways bureaucracies work?
100
Deals with respective ranges of responsibilities, susceptible to lobbyists
What are Cabinets?
200
Congress sets own agenda; congressional response to a complaint
What is Police Patrol & Fire Alarm?
200
17 years.
What is the average job length of federal employees?
200
Led to first major expansion of new departments under Lincoln.
What is the Civil War?
200
30 days
How long rules take to go into effect?
200
Prohibits political activity while on duty, run for partisan elections
What is the Federal Employees Political Activities Act?
300
Percentage of Congressional Federal Civilian Employment
What is 1.1%?
300
Private contractors who killed 22 Iraqi civilians; brought up debates about what private sectors should be doing
What is the Backwater Scandal?
300
Filling public offices with party loyalists
What is the spoils system?
300
relatively stable interactions among agencies/groups/subcommittees
What is an iron triangle?
300
60% of the workforce.
What is the Cabinet percentage?
400
Percentage of Judicial Federal Civilian Employment.
What is 1.2%
400
appointive policy making, independent regulatory commissions, low level, non policy patronage.
What are the categories of the modern bureaucracy?
400
Jobs, grants, or other special given to friends and political allies for support.
What is Patronage?
400
loose/informal relationships among those working in broad policy areas
What are issue networks?
400
National Labor Relations Board, Federal Reserve Board
What are examples of independent regulatory commissions?
500
What is the Congressional Budget Office?
500
Public authority or government agency responsible for exercising autonomous authority over some area of human activity in a regulatory or supervisory capacity.
What are independent regulatory commissions?
500
The President that wanted to reform the civil service system.
Who was Garfield?
500
‘Single most important function performed by the government’
What is rulemaking?
500
Business established by Congress, rather than use private businesses
What are government corporations?