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14 Cards in this Set
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Public administration |
A term referred by most political scientists to describe the bureaucratic process - the business of making government work |
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Constituencies |
Interest groups or client groups either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions |
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Triangle |
A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government and interest group and a committee or subcommittee of congress |
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Issue networks |
A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation, play an important role in the shaping of public policy |
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Cabinet department |
Unit of government under the president. Plays a huge role in the bureaucracy |
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Executive agencies |
Units of government under the president within the executive branch that are not part of a cabinet department |
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Government corporations |
Agencies that were at one time semiautonomous but through legislation sicnr 1945 have been placed under presidential control |
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Independent regulatory agencies |
Exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of the president congress and the courts |
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Social regulation |
Refers to laws rules and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health worker safety consumer protection and the environment |
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Spoil system |
Practice of rewarding loyal followers with jobs |
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Political patronage |
The dispensation of devours or rewards such as public office, jobs , contracts or other valued benefits by a patronage |
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Hatch act |
A federal law by congress passed on 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers |
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Whistle blowers |
Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in their course of duties |
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Senior executive service |
A corporations of about 7,700 high level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy |
