Departments and Agencies
This department is in charge of Border Security.
What is the Department of Homeland Security
They can oversee the bureaucracy through judicial review of the actions of bureaucrats.
Who is the Supreme Court or the Federal Judiciary.
Besides political appointees promotion and advancement in the Bureaucracy is supposed to be based on this.
What is merit
A government agency that performs a market-oriented public service and raises revenues to fund its activities.
What is a government corporation
The term for when the government uses a private business to carry out one of its goals.
Private Contracting
This department enforces fair lending practices and combats housing discrimination.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development
They can manage the bureaucracy by appointing cabinet secretaries and top level bureaucrats.
Who is the President.
Bureaucrats are tasked with executing and implementing laws because they have this.
What is expertise
A government agency outside the executive department usually headed by commissioners.
What is an independent regulatory commission
The term for when one entity gives decision making authority to another entity, but that second entity makes decisions that the first entity does not actually want.
What is the Principal-Agent Problem
This department manages the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
What is the department of energy
They can manage the bureaucracy through investigations, hearings, and other oversight powers.
What is Congress or the Legislative Branch.
Congress may delegate authority to the bureaucracy in order to avoid this.
What are controversial decisions
Regular or even preemptive congressional hearings on bureaucratic agency operations.
A form of government failure in which a regulatory agency becomes too sympathetic to interests or businesses they are supposed to regulate.
What is Regulatory Capture
This independent administration manages benchmark interest rates and the money supply.
What is the Federal Reserve System
These are independent organizations within agencies charged with investigating waste, fraud, or misconduct.
What are Inspector General Offices
The development of the internet is an example of the ability of bureaucrats to do this.
What is innovate
The agency in the Executive Office of the President with control over the federal budget and regulations.
What is the Office of Management and Budget
The term of a portion of the bureaucracy headed by a cabinet secretary.
What are executive departments
This independent administration manages federal pension plans for the elderly.
What is the Social Security Administration.
The term for employees who report wrongdoing in the government agencies or private business they work at.
What is a whistleblower
All federal departments and agencies have one of these that is supposed to guide their actions and decisions.
What is a Mission Statement
The percentage of the US labor force employed by all levels of government.
What is fifteen percent
The most important thing that the bureaucracy does.
What is make rules and execute the law