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Bureaucracy |
an organization that exists to accomplish certain goals or objectives called public purposes and that consists of a group of people hired and arranged in a hierarchy because of specific duties they can perform. |
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Public Purpose |
A goal or objective of a bureaucracy |
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Bureaucrats |
Individuals working in the executive branch of government who have received their positions on the basis of some type of appointment. |
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Fourth Branch |
Viewed as separate from the presidency, the collection of executive departments, independent establishments, and government corporations. |
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President's Cabinet |
political institution comprised mainly of executive department heads that collectively serve as a source of advice for the president |
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Independent Agency |
A type of bureaucratic unit organizationally located outside of an executive department and headed by a single individual |
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Independent Regulatory Commision |
a type of bureaucratic unit located outside of an executive department, headed by a group of individuals called a commission, and charged with regulating a specific industry or economic practice. |
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Government Corporation |
A type of bureaucratic unit that offers some service for which the benefiting individual or institution must pay directly. |
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Spoils System |
The practice of making appointments to government jobs on the basis of party loyalty and support in election campaigns. |
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Pendleton Act |
Legislation passed in 1883 that created the Civil Service Commission charged with the task of using merit, rather than partisan political connections, as a condition of government employment. |
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Hatch Act |
Legislation that prohibits civil servants from participating in partisan political activity. |
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Civil Service Reform Act - 1978 |
Legislation designed to improve the level of performance of civil servants by creating incentives for high-quality work, protecting whistle-blowers, and making it easier to fire inadequate employees. |
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Senior Executive Service |
Created by the Civil Service Reform Act, a class of civil servants drawn from the highest grades and who might be given bonuses, transferred among agencies, or demoted, depending on the quality of their work |
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Office of Personnel Management - 1981 |
Part of the Executive Office of the President, focuses on formulation, coordination, and implementation of domestic and economic policy, and provides staff support for the Economic and Domestic Policy Councils. |
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Merit Systems Protection Board |
an agency charged with protecting individual employees against violations of the merit principle or actions taken against whistle-blowers. |
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Legislative Veto |
Congressional power, which the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 1983, to halt an executive initiative by a vote of one or both houses or by a congressional committee. |
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Iron Triangle |
the combination of interest group representatives, legislators, and government administrators seen as extremely influential determining the outcome of political decisions |
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Regulation |
rules devised by government agencies that shape the actions of individuals and groups in order to achieve purposes mandated by law |
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Economic Regulation |
type of regulation in which a government agency issues rules that shape the structure of some industry, such as limiting entrance into the broadcast industry, or banning or encouraging certain business practices. |
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Social Regulation |
type of regulation in which a government agency issues rules designed to achieve non economic policy goals, such as fair treatment in employment, clean air, or safe workplaces |
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Quasi-Legislative |
a function of regulatory agencies in which they can make rules that, like legislation, apply to whole classes of people |
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Quasi-Judicial |
a function of regulatory agencies in which, like a court, they can make decisions in individual cases |
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Administrative Law Judge |
an officer with relatively independent status in a regulatory agency who presides over and makes findings in judicial proceedings in which the agency's actions in individual cases are at issue. |
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Deregulation |
Process of reducing the number and scope of government regulations. |
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Red Tape |
Bureaucratic rules and procedures that seem to complicate and delay needed action immediately. |
