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25 Cards in this Set
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what is a large, complex organization composed of appointed officials?
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bureaucracy
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What has become an obvious feature of all modern societies, democratic and nondemocratic?
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Bureaucratic government
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What is the spoil System?
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another pharse for political partonage
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Who was one of the first people in modern times to think seriously about the importance of bureacracy ?
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Max Weber
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According to Weber, What are the several basic characteristics of bureacracy?
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hierarchical authority structure
task specialization extensive rules clear goals the merit principle impersonality |
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What characteristics distinguish The Amercan federal bureacracy from others?
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Divided supervion, close public scrutiny, and regulation rather than public ownership
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What did President Andrew Jackson employ to reward party loyalists with key federal posts?
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spoils system
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What did the Pendleton Act do?
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set up a limited merit system for appointing federal offices
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what supervised a a testing program to evaluate candidates?
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Civil Service Commission
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What 2 new agencies was the result of the split in the function of the Civil Service Commission?
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The Office of Personnel Management and The Merit Systems Protection Board
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In what branch of government do Bureaucrats work In?
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The executive branch
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what are the five biggest employers of bureaucrats?
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Department of Army, Navy, and Air Force, the department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S Postal Service
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What are the Government corporations?
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a blend of private corporation and govenment agency.
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What was the purpose of Government corporations?
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to allow more freedom and flexibility than exists in regular government agencies
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What are other agencies that do not fall into the first three categories
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idependent executive agencies
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what depends on the amount of power the bureacracy have?
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discretionary authority
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what hapoens after the president signs a bill into law?
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the bureacracy must implement it
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What is Munn v. Illinois?
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a case that confirmed the rights of the state of illinois to regulate the charges and services of a Chicago warehouse
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what can't a government bureau do?
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hire, fire, build, or sell without going through procedures set by Congress
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What is an iron triangle?
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alliances among bureacrats, interest groups, and congressional subcommittee members and staff
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what is an issue network?
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networks that are contentious, with arguments and disagreements occuring along partisan, ideological, and economic lines
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what is the Hatch Act?
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an Act requiring employees, once they were hired, to have as little to do with political parties as possible
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what are the most mentioned criticisms of the bureacrcy?
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"red tape", conflict, duplication, unchecked growth, waste, lack of accountability
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according to the criticisms of the bureacracy, what is duplication?
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a situation in which two agencies appear to be doing the same thing
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acccording to the criticisms of the bureacracy, what is conflict?
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agencies that often work at work at cross purposes with one another
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