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A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials.
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A bureaucracy.
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Term first used in 1832 by Senator William Marcy of New York. He was defending Jacksons appointment of Van Buren.
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The Spoils system.
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The belief in a freely competitive economy.
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Laissez-faire.
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During wars we see that bureaucracies___________.
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Increase in size.
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Today's bureaucracy is largely a result of what two events?
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1. New Deal programs.
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Do most presidents like to admit that they have increased the size of the bureaucracy?
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NO.
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What is the ability to choose courses of action and to make policies that are not spelled out in advance by laws?
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Discretionary authority.
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What is the actual recruitment of civil servants, especially in middle- and upper-level jobs?
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The Buddy system.
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A job that is filled by a person whom an agency has already identified?
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Name-request job.
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Factors that might shape how bureaucrats use their powers are personal attributes such as?
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Social class, education, ans personal political beliefs.
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Democrats and people with liberal views tend to be ___________ in social service agencies.
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Overrepresented.
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Republicans and conservatives tend to be _________ in defense agencies.
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Overrepresented.
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It is very _________ to fire career bureaucrats.
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Hard.
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Because of how hard it is to fire bureaucrats, this has resulted in that some of them sabotage their _______.
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Bosses if they have hard line differences.
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How may a bureaucrat sabotage his superior?
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By leaking some negative information to congress or the media.
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Every goverment agency has its own _________.
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Culture.
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What is the largest difference between a private business and a goverment agency?
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Goverment agencies have many constraints.
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What is one negative of constraints in goverment agencies?
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Goverment acts slower, and blocking actions becomes easy.
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The relationship among an agency, a committee, and an interest group is known as an _____.
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Iron triangle.
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Political scientist think that iron triangles have been replaced with _______.
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Issue network.
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Interest groups are important to goverment agencies because they are also important to ____________.
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Congress.
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No agency may exist without _________ approval.
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Congressional.
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_________ operate outside the regular government budget, and the appropriations committees have no control over these expenditures.
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Trust funds.
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The complex rules and procedures that must be followed to get something done are known as _________?
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Red tapes.
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Sometimes weak bureaucracies help protect our _________.
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Liberties.
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