Bureaucracy

2. Someone who brings to public attention gross government inefficiency or an illegal action.
5. A statue enacted by Congress that authorizes the creation of an administrative agency and specifies the name, purpose, composition, functions, and powers of the agency being created.
6. A federal, sate, or local government unit established to perform a specific function.
7. An agency of government that administers a quasi-business enterprise. These corporations are used when activities are primarily commercial.
9. Laws requiring that existing programs be reviewed regularly for their effectiveness and be terminated unless specifically extended as a result of these reviews.
10. The initial central personnel agency of the national government, created in 1883.
17. A federal agency that is not part of a cabinet department but reports directly to the president.
20. The act by which an industry being regulated by a government agency gains direct or indirect control over agency personnel and decision makers.

1. The awarding of government jobs to political supporters and friends.
3. An agency outside the major executive departments charged with making and implementing rules and regulations.
4. An act that established the principle of employment in the basis of merit and created the Civil Service Commission to administer the personnel service.
8. The selection, retention, and promotion of government employees on the basis of competitive examinations.
11. One of the major service organizations of the federal government.
12. A model of bureaucracy the compares bureaucracies to monopolistic business firms. Lack of competition in either circumstance leads to inefficient and costly operations.
13. A law that requires all committee-directed federal agencies to conduct their business regularly in public session.
14. In the federal government, an administrative unit that is directly accountable to the president.
15. A model of bureaucracy by hierarchical organizations in which decisions are based on logical reasoning.
16. A large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions.
17. The three-way alliance among legislators, bureaucrats, and interest groups to make or preserve policies that benefit their respective interests.
18. The replacement of government services with services provided by private firms.
19. A group of individual or organization that supports a particular policy position on a given issue.