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37 Cards in this Set
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who advanced the classic conception of bureaucracy |
Max Weber |
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what did max weber argue? |
that the bureacracy was a "rational" way for a modern society to conduct businesses |
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What Weberian model |
a bureaucracy is a well-organized machine with plenty of working, hierarchal parts |
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merit principle |
policy that promotion to bureaucracies is based on employee's ability rather than "who do you know" |
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patronage system |
hiring and promotion system based on knowing the right people, working in an election campaign, making political donations, or having the right connections |
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as a percentage of America's workforce, federal governmnet employment has been .... |
shrinking |
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what percent of all civilian jobs are federal governmnet employment |
3% |
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until the late nineteenth century, how did most gov employees get their jobs? |
patronage system |
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what do civil service systems do? |
hire and promote members of bureacracy on the basis of merit to create a nonpartisan government service |
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The Hatch Act |
1940, prohibits federal civil service employees from active participation in partisan policies |
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Pwho created the Pendleton Act of 1883? |
federal civil system |
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Pendleton Act of 1883 |
placed federal government employees on merit system |
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General Schedule (GS) |
for federal employees ranging from GS1 to GS18, whch saleries are keyed to rating and experience |
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Wht agency was created to police the stock market |
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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what did the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 establish? |
elite cadre (Senior Executive Service) of approx. 9,000 federal government managers... includes career officials and political appointees who do not require senate confirmation |
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what does the National Labor Relations Board regulate? |
labor-management relations |
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independent regulatory agencies |
parts of federal bureaucracy with responsibility to making and enforcing rules designed to protect public interest in differnet sectors of the economy |
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independent regulatory agencies have powerful......., ......., ....... |
rule-making, dispute-settling, and enforcement authority |
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what is thehe main job of federal bureaucrats? |
to implement or regulate government policies |
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what is creating new agencies, developing guidelines, and coordinating resources to achieve a policy goal called? |
policy implementations |
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administartive discretion |
authority of administrative actors to select among verious responses or alternatives to a given problem |
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stret-level bureaucrats |
civil service employees who are in constant contact with the public and for that reason have considerable discretion |
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what makes the coordination of policies difficult ad time consuming? |
diffusion of responsibility within the bureaucracy |
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who created the Department of Homeland Security in 2002? |
President Bush |
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what was the Department of Homeland Security supposed to help overcome? |
problems of fragmentation involved in providing national security |
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what do most regulatory agencies adopt to carry out a policy based on the intended purpose of the policy at hand? |
specific guidelines |
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what happens after congress passes regulatory legislation> |
it grants power to regulatory agencies to develop guidelines and enforce compliance |
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deregulation |
lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities |
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what is a major problem for presidnets and congress in controlling bureaucracies |
iron triangles |
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"iron triangle" |
consists of bureaucratic agency, interest group, and congressional committee |
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what is a growing participatory force in bureaucratic desicion-makings? |
issue networks |
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what do issue networks focus on? |
intellectual or emotional issues, rather than material |
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bureaucracy |
way of organizing people to operate as federal employees |
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who ae most agencies responsible to |
the president |
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what is an example of governmnet corporations or special services |
US postal service and Amtrak |
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policy implementation |
stage of policy making in which the consequences of the policy affect people |
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what do bureaucratic agencies frequently lack? |
adequate staff members, training, funding, supplies, and equipment.. making it hard to carry out assigned tasks |