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AP Gov 4.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Concept of Bureaucracy stressed by Max Weber that is "rational" way for society to continue its buisness | Weberian model of bureaucracy |
| 1. It has to have an authority structure where power flows from top down 2. Specialization, so experts perform technical jobs 3. Must develop a rule structure to allow similar cases to be handeled similarly | Weberian model rules for bureaucracy: |
| Most respond to the president; created by congress, setting its budget & policies | Bureaucratic agencies |
| Makes up more than half of federal bureacracy with 1.4 million in uniform | Department of Defense (DOD) |
| 100 years ago, people would use this to gain govt jobs ;a hiring and promotion system based on knowing the right people | Patronage |
| form of cabinent/gov-making in the nineteenth-century where presidents staffed the government with their friends and allies | "spoils system" |
| Created federal civil service | Pendelton Service Act (1883) |
| Creator of the Pendelton service act | Vice Pres Chester Aruthur |
| Intended to produce administration based on talent and skill | Merit principal |
| Prohibits employees from active participation in partisan politics | Hatch Act |
| Hires for most agencies of federal government | Office of Personal Managment (OPM) |
| After a provisionary period | Civil servants are protected & difficult to be fired |
| Civil servants are protected & difficult to be fired | After a provisionary period |
| Published by congress, listing federal jobs availible for direct appointment; other route for federal jobs | Plum book |
| 1. Cabinent departments 2. Regulatory agencies 3. Government corporations 4. Independent executive agencies | Four types of bureaucratic organization |
| Each ___ departments are led by a secretary | 15 |
| Each 15 departments are led by a ________ | secretary |
| All chosen by president and approved by senate; each leads 15 departments | Secretary of cabinent members |
| undersecretaries, deputy undersecretaries, and assistant secretaries | Roles under secretaties |
| Manages specific policy areas and each has own budget & staff | Cabinent departments |
| Becoming independent agency in 1995, spending 1/3rd of federal agency budget on programs of social security & medicare | Social Security Administration |
| Each indepent agency which has responsibilities for some sector of economy, making/enforcing rules to protect public agencies | Regulatory Agencies |
| Governed by small commissions apppointed by president for fixed terms & confimed by the senate; commission members cant be fired by the president | Regulatory agencies |
| Provide servies that could be handeled by private sector; typically charge for service at cheaper rates than private sectors | Government corporations |
| Larges government corporation | U.S. Postal Service |
| U.S. Postal Service | Larges government corporation |
| Not part of cabinent departments and dont have regulatory functions, usually performing specialized tasks | Independent Executive agencies |
| 1. Policy implementors 2. Administer public policy 3. Regulators | 3 key roles of policy makers |
| when bureacracy carries out decisions of congress, president, and the courts; usually translated by bureaucrats of legislative policy goals | Policy implementation |
| Occurs when Congress announces policy in broad, setting up administrative & lets bureacracy work out details of program | Policy implementation |
| 1. Creates new agencies/assigns responsibility to an old one 2. Translate policy goals into rules & develope guidelines 3. Coordination of resource & personell to acheive intended goals | 3 elements of policy implementation |
| Regulation of the economy & society growth, budget, employment level, and number of rules issued | Bureacracy as Regulators |
| Numbers and complexity of regulatory policies have made regulation too complex & burdensom | Deregulation |
| it raises prices, hurts US competition abroad, and dosent always work well | Critisms of regulation |
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