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| bureaucracy | A large, complex administrative structure that handles the everyday business of an organization
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| bureaucrat | A person who works for a bureaucratic organization
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| administration | The officials in the executive branch of a government and their policies and principles.
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| staff agency | An agency which supports the chief executive and other administrators by offering advice and other assistance in the management of the organization
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| line agency | an agency which performs the tasks for which the organization exists
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| Executive Office of the President | An organization of several agencies staffed by the President's closest advisers.
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| federal budget | A detailed financial document containing estimates of federal income and spending during the coming fiscal year
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| fiscal year | The 12-month period used by a government and the business world for its record-keeping, budgeting, revenue-collecting, and other financial management purposes.
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| domestic affairs | All matters not directly connected to the real of foreign affairs.
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| executive departments | Often called the Cabinet departments, they are the traditional units of federal administration.
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| secretary | An official in charge of a department of government
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| attorney general | The head of the Department of Justice.
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| independent agencies | Additional agencies created by Congress located outside the Cabinet departments.
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| independent executive agencies | Agencies headed by a single administrator with regional subunits, but lacking Cabinet status.
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| independent regulatory commissions | Independent agencies created by Congress, designed to regulate importat aspects of the natin's economy, largely beyond the reach of presidential control
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| quasi-legislative | Having to do with powers that are to some exten legislative
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| quasi-judicial | Having to do with powers that are to some extent judicial
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| government corporation | Corporations within the executive branch subject to the President's direction and control, set up by Congress to carry out certain business-like activities.
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| civil service | Those civilian employees who perform the administrative work of government.
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| spoils system | The practice of giving offices and other favors of government to political supporters and friends.
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| patronage | The practice of giving jobs to supporters and friends.
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| register | A record or list of names, often kept by an official appointed to do so.
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| bipartisan | Supported by two parties.
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