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Bureaucracy Cards
Bureaucracy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A large organization composed of appointed officers in which authority is divided among several managers | Bureaucracy |
| 1883 law which began the process of transferring federal jobs form patronage to the merit system | Pendleton Act |
| Bureaucratic appointments made on the basis of political considerations | Patronage |
| Money formally set aside for a specific use | Appropriation |
| Members of interest groups, congressional staffers, university faculty, experts in think tanks, and members of the media who regularly debate government policy on a certain subject | Issue network |
| 1939 law that prohibits civil servants from active participation in partisan politics; amended in 1993 | Hatch Act |
| The policy-making network composed of a government agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group | Iron triangle |
| A bureaucratic pathology in which agencies tend to grow without regard to the benefits their programs confer or the costs they entail | Imperialism |
| Money outside the regular government budget; funds beyond the control of congressional appropriations committees | Trust fund |
| A law passed in 1966 giving citizens the right to inspect all government records except those containing military, intelligence, or trade secrets or information revealing private personnel actions | Freedom of Information Act |
| The ability of a bureaucracy to choose courses of action and make policies not spelled out in advance by laws | Discretionary authority |
| The practice of a legislative committee determining the amount an agency can spend on a yearly basis; curtails the power of the appropriations committees | Annual authorization |
| An 1989 law creating an Office of Special Counsel to investigate complaints from bureaucrats claiming they were punished after reporting to Congress about waste, fraud, or abuse in their agencies | Whistleblower Protection Act |
| Congressional supervision of the bureaucracy | Oversight |
| A bureaucratic pathology in which some agencies seem to be working at cross-purposes to other agencies | Conflict |
| Legislation that originates in a legislative committee stating the maximum amount of money that an agency may spend on a given program | Authorization |
| A bureaucratic pathology in which an agency spends more than is necessary to buy some product or service | Waste |
| A bureaucratic pathology in which complex rules and procedures must be followed to get things done | Red tape |
| A bureaucratic pathology in which two or more government agencies seem to be doing the same thing | Duplication |
| A large organization composed of appointed officers in which authority is divided among several managers | Bureaucracy |
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