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| Characteristics of a bureaucracy |
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1.Hierarchical Organization
2.Specialized Division of Labor
3.Formalized Rules |
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| Functions of a bureaucracy |
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-Implement
-Administer
-Regulate |
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| The "Bureaucracy Problem" |
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| Impossibility of tasks, difficulty measuring performance, slow to change, red tape (unnecessary rules and regulations) and expansionary tendencies. |
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| System of government employment in which workers are hired on the basis of party loyalty. |
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•Senate Confirmations
•Agency Reorganization
•Budgetary Control
•Oversight |
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•Input into staffing
•Oversight
•Executive Orders |
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| Why do bureaucracies grow? |
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-Growing need.
-Growing demand.
-Bureaucracies themselves want to grow. |
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| Whose fault is waste and spending in the bureaucracy? |
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| Administrative Discretion |
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| The power of a bureaucracy to interpret a legislative mandate. |
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| The basic organizational unit of federal government. Also known as office or bureau. |
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| Hierarchical organization of officials with responsibility for specific tasks. |
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| A system in which government employees are chosen according to their educational qualifications, performance on examinations, and work experience. |
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| Congressional Budget Office (CBO) |
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| Congressional agency that evaluates the president's budget as well as budgetary implications of all other legislation. |
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| An agency's effort to avoid OMB controls by appealing to it's allies in congress. |
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| Independent organization created by Congress to fulfill functions related to business. |
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| A 1939 law prohibiting federal employees from engaging in political campaigning and solicitation |
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| Political appointees who come in, go out, and come back in again with each change in administration. |
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| Independent Regulatory Agencies |
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| Agencies with quasi-judicial responsibilities that are meant to be carried out in a manner of free presidential interference. |
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| The four original departments that usually have the closest tie to the president. I.e. State, Defense, Treasury, and Justice |
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| A close, stable connection among agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees. |
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| Organized in 1880's, a group of civil-service reformers who maintained that government officials should be chosen on a merit basis, not for their political connections. |
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| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) |
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| Agency responsible for developing the president's budget, setting personnel policy in the executive branch, and reviewing all proposed legislation sent by the executive branch to Congress to ensure it is consistent with the president's agenda. |
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| Newer departments that have less access to the president but have evolved in such a way as to provide interest groups access to the executive branch of government. |
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| Appoint of individuals to public office in exchange for their political support. Widely practiced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and continues to present day. |
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| Legislation passed in 1883 creating the Civil Service Commission. |
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| A presidential appointment made without Senate confirmation while the Senate is in recess. |
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| A 1976 law requiring that federal government meetings be held in public. |
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| An informal rule that the Senate will not confirm nominees for positions within a state unless it has the approval of the state's senior senator from the president's party. |
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