Chapter 14 Bureaucracy

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Across
  1. 5. Corporations: A government agency that operates like a business corporation, created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
  2. 6. Operating Procedures: These procedures are used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations. Uniformity improves fairness and makes personnel interchangeable.
  3. 7. the use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector
  4. 9. Principle: The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill.
  5. 10. Regulatory Commission: A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
  6. 13. The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities.
  7. 14. Bureaucrats: A phrase referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion.
  8. 15. Rating: A schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience.
  9. 17. of Personnel Management: The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process.
  10. 20. Orders: a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
  11. 21. Implementation: Carrying out a policy through government agencies and courts
Down
  1. 1. Granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
  2. 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. 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. 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
  5. 8. Discretion: The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions
  6. 11. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
  7. 12. System: Alternative to command and control, with marketlike strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy.
  8. 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.
  9. 18. Service: A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
  10. 19. Triangles: A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees. They dominate some areas of domestic policymaking.