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| the practice of a legislative committee determining the amount an agency can spend on a yearly basis. |
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| money formally set aside for a specific use; issued by the House Appropriations Committee |
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| Authorization Legislation |
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| legislation that originates in a legislative committee stating the maximum amount of money that an agencymay spend on a given program |
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| a large organization composed of appointed officers in which authority is divided among several managers |
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| a request made by congressional committees to review certain agency decisions. |
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| the set of civil servants appointed on the basis of a written exam administered by the OPM. |
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| the ability of a bureaucracy to choose courses of action and make policies not spelled out in advance by laws |
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| policy making network composed of a govt agency, a congressional committee and an interest group. |
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| members of washington based interest groups, congressional staffers, university faculty, experts participating in think tanks and representatives of the mass media |
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| belief in a freely competitive economy. without govt intervention |
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| congressional veto of an executive decision during the specified period it must lie before COngress before it can take effect |
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| job in the federal bureaucracy that is filled by s person whom an agency has already identified |
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| bureaucratic appointments made on the basis of political considerations |
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| law passed in 1883 which began the process of transferring federal jobs from patronage to the merit system |
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| a bureaucratic pathology in which complex rules and procedures must be followed to get things done. |
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| a form of patronage under the excepted service for a position of "confidential or policy determining" character below the level of the cabinet and subcabinet |
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| Senior Executive Service (SES) |
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| special classifaication for a high-level civil servant created by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. |
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| another phrase for political patronage, that is, the practice of giving the fruits of a party's victory. |
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| money outside the regular govt budget. they are beyond the control of the appropriations committee |
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