Chapter 14 Bureaucracy
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- 5. Corporations: A government agency that operates like a business corporation, created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
- 6. Operating Procedures: These procedures are used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations. Uniformity improves fairness and makes personnel interchangeable.
- 7. the use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector
- 9. Principle: The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill.
- 10. Regulatory Commission: A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
- 13. The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities.
- 14. Bureaucrats: A phrase referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion.
- 15. Rating: A schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience.
- 17. of Personnel Management: The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process.
- 20. Orders: a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
- 21. Implementation: Carrying out a policy through government agencies and courts
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- 1. Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- 2. Civil Service Act: Passed in 1883, an Act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
- 3. Act: The 1939 act to prohibit civil servants from taking activist roles in partisan campaigns. This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions, working for a particular party, or campaigning for a particular candidate.
- 4. and Control Policy: Typical system of regulation whereby gov. tells business how to reach certain goals,checks that these commands are fallowed, and punishes offender
- 8. Discretion: The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions
- 11. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
- 12. System: Alternative to command and control, with marketlike strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy.
- 16. Executive Service: Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible, mobile corps of senior career executives who work closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
- 18. Service: A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
- 19. Triangles: A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees. They dominate some areas of domestic policymaking.