Unit 2

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Across
  1. 4. the office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process
  2. 6. policy regulatory strategy where the government sets a requirement and then enforces individual and corporate actions to be consistent with meeting the requirement.
  3. 8. a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality.
  4. 9. regulations originating with the executive branch. Executive orders are one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy.
  5. 10. principle the idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill.
  6. 11. The use of governmental authority to control or change some practices in the private sector
  7. 13. the lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities
  8. 14. A government agency with responsibility for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest in some sectors of the economy and for judging disputes over these rules
  9. 17. Labor Relations Board created to regulate labor-management relations
  10. 19. one of the key inducements used by party machines. A patronage job, promotion, or contract is one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone.
  11. 20. Act 1883 law that created a Civil Service Commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute to campaign funds nor be fired for political reasons
Down
  1. 1. charged with governing banks and, even more importantly, regulating the supply of money and thus interest rates
  2. 2. Act a federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics while on duty. The same law applies at all times to federal employees in sensitive positions.
  3. 3. charged with licensing radio and TV stations and regulating their programming in the public interest as well as with regulating interstate long-distance telephone rates, cable television, and the Internet
  4. 5. An alternative to command-and-control, with market-like strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy.
  5. 7. excessive bureaucracy or adherence to rules and formalities, especially in public business.
  6. 12. service A body of government employees who are hired and promoted through a system based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
  7. 15. subgovernments, iron triangles consist of interest groups, government agencies, and congressional committees or subcommittees that have a mutually dependent, mutually advantageous relationship; they dominate some areas of domestic policymaking
  8. 16. Executive Service an elite cadre of about 9,000 federal government managers at the top of the civil service system
  9. 18. a schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience